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Running before the Wind (detail), by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)

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Ivan Kharchenko. First Russian warship "Oryol" ("Eagle")/

It was built in 1668 in the village of Dedinov on the Oka River. Displacement of about 250 tons, length - 24.5 m., width - 6.5 m., draft - 1.5 m., armament of 22 guns, crew of 58 people (captain, 22 sailors, 35 soldiers)

On October 29, 1955, near the Hospital Wall of Sevastopol Bay, after severe damage from an explosion equivalent to 1000-1200 kg of TNT, the cause of which has not yet been officially established (the official version is an explosion on a mine left over from the times of the Patriotic War), the Black Sea Fleet battleship Novorossiysk (Italian Giulio Cesare) sank. 617 people were killed — 557 people of the battleship's crew and 60 people from the personnel of the emergency parties of other ships of the squadron. Later, the ship was disassembled for metal and transferred to the Zaporizhstal plant.