Pallada
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Pallada
was a Russian Bayan class cruiser laid down by Admiralty
Dockyard in St. Petersburg in August 1905. She was
launched in November 1906, and was commissioned five years
later. A few months after the outbreak of The Great War,
she was spotted outside Hankø and torpedoed by the German
uboat SM U 26
under command of Egewolf Freiherr von Berckheim. he
disappeared in the deep almost immediately, and Captain
Sergei and 596 men went down with her. The wreck was found
by divers in 2000, resting today broken in three parts on
a depth of 40 to 45 meter south of Hankø.
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38.000' N 23° 04.000' E
 Picture: Pallada -Паллада Courtesy of Uboat.net, Public domain Last updated: March 2014 |
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