Kagul / Pamyat Merkuriya / Komintern (Bogatyr Class)

Laid down	23rd August 1901
Launched	20th May 1902
Completed	N/A
Commissioned	July 1905
Fate	Scrapped: 1958
Builders	Admiralty Shipyard, Nikolaiev Russia
Complement	573
Dimensions
Displacement	6340 tons std
Dimensions	432' 7" x 53' 8"
Draught	20'
Armament
Main guns	14 x 5.1"/55 (14 x 1)
Secondary guns	2 x 75mm
Torpedo tubes	6 x 17.9" beam
Other weapons	None
Countermeasures	None
Armour	Deck: 3" C.T.: 5.9" Casemates: 3"
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft	None
Flightdeck	None
Hangar	None
Catapults	None
Arrestor system	None
Aviation fuel	None
Electronics Fit
Radar	None
Sonar	None
ECM	None
Other	N/A
Machinery
Engines	16 x Belleville boilers 2 x vertical triple expansion
Power output	19500ihp
Speed	23kts
Shafts	2
Range	2100NM @ 12kts
Fuel	1200 tons coal

Kagul was commissioned in the Black Sea Fleet. During the occupation of Sevastopol, Kaguls machinery was wrecked by the British, and she was abandonded by General Wrangels forces when the White Russians abandoned the peninsula.

Repaired by the Soviets, she was recommissioned on 1st May 1923 with the name of Komintern and used as a training ship. During the 1930s, it was suggested to turn her into seaplane carrier.

In 1941, she took part in the defence of Odessa, and of Sevastopol in 1942. On 2nd July 1942, she was bombed by German aircraft off Novorissisk. By the 16th, she had arrived at Poti, and was again bombed and damaged beyond repair. She was sunk as a breakwater at Poti soon after, and raised and scrapped after the war.

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