page_title: List of battleships of Russia and the Soviet Union
section_title: Dvenadsat Apostolov
hierarchical_section_title: List of battleships of Russia and the Soviet Union / Pre-Dreadnoughts / Dvenadsat Apostolov
caption_attribution_description: English: The Imperial Russian battleship Dvenadtsat' Apostolov in Sevastopol. Русский: Эскадренный броненосец Двенадцать Апостолов на рейде Севастополя.
context_page_description: This is a list of battleships of Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
context_section_description: Dvenadsat Apostolov was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Black Sea Fleet, the sole ship of her class. She joined the fleet in mid-1893, but was not fully ready for service until 1894. Dvenadsat Apostolov participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Potemkin in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, the ship became an immobile submarine depot ship the following year. Dvenadsat Apostolov was captured by the Germans in 1918 in Sevastopol and was handed over to the Allies in December. Lying immobile in Sevastopol, she was captured by both sides in the Russian Civil War before she was abandoned when the White Russians evacuated the Crimea in 1920. The ship was used as a stand-in for the title ship during the filming of The Battleship Potemkin and was finally scrapped in 1931.
caption: Dvenadsat Apostolov at anchor, Sevastopol
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