Russian cruiser Pallada (1906)
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| History | |
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| Russian Empire | |
| Name | Pallada |
| Namesake | Pallas Athena |
| Builder | Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Laid down | August 1905 |
| Launched | 10 November 1906 |
| Completed | 21 February 1911 |
| Fate | Sunk by U-26, 11 October 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Bayan-class armored cruiser |
| Displacement | 7,750 long tons (7,874 t) standard |
| Length | 449.6 ft (137.0 m) |
| Beam | 57 ft 6 in (17.5 m) |
| Draught | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
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| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Complement | 568 (597 at sinking) |
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Pallada (Russian: Паллада) was the last of the four Bayan-class armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet during World War I where she captured codebooks from the German cruiser Magdeburg that had run aground during the first month of the war. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in October 1914 and exploded; none of the crew survived. Pallada was the first warship lost by the Russians during the war.