Russian cruiser Pallada
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The Russian cruiser Pallada could refer to:
- PalladaRussian cruiser Pallada (1899)The RUS Pallada was the lead ship in the of protected cruisers in the Imperial Russian Navy. It was built in Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russia...
, the lead ship of her classPallada class cruiserThe Pallada-class were a group of three protected cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1890s.One ship of the class, Aurora, is still crewed by the Russian Navy, and maintained as a museum ship.-References:...
of protected cruisers. The ship was launched in 1899 and sunk at Port Arthur in December 1904. Salvaged by Japan, it was refitted and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as IJN TsugaruJapanese cruiser Tsugaruwas an protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, acquired as a prize of war during the Russo-Japanese War from the Imperial Russian Navy, where it was originally known as the . The cruisers and were its sister ships.-Background:...
. - PalladaRussian cruiser Pallada (1911)Pallada was the last of the four armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1900s. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet during World War I where she captured codebooks from the German cruiser that had run aground during the first month of the war...
, the armored cruiser of Bayan class. Launched in 1911 and, sunk by a German submarine in the Baltic Sea on 11 October 1914 shortly after the outbreak of World War I.