Aurora (Pallada Class)

Laid down	23rd May 1897
Launched	28th April 1900
Completed	N/A
Commissioned	16th July 1903
Fate	Preserved as museum: From 1948 at St. Petersburg
Builders	New Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg Russia
Complement	570
Dimensions
Displacement	5260 tons std 6731 tons max
Dimensions	416' x 55' 1"
Draught	20' 9"
Armament
Main guns	As built: 14 x 5.9"/45 (14 x 1) 1915: 10 x 5.1"/55 (10 x 1)
Secondary guns	2 x 3"/30 (2 x 1)
Torpedo tubes	3 x 14.9" 1 bow, 2 beam
Other weapons	None
Countermeasures	None
Armour	Deck: 1.5" - 2.5" C.T.: 2.5"
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	24 x Belleville boilers 3 x vertical triple expansion
Power output	11600ihp
Speed	20kts
Shafts	3
Range	2200NM @ 9kts
Fuel	1430 tons coal

Aurora was badly damaged at the battle of Tsushima, and escaped to be interned at Manila. In 1917, she fired the first shot of the October Revolution. In 1941, she was bombed by German aircraft off Lomonossov, and sank in shallow water. Her guns were removed and used ashore.

She was raised postwar, and preserved as a memorial ship. Between 1985 and 1986, she was overhauled at the Zhdanov Shipyard, St. Petersburg, for the 70th anniversary of the Revolution.

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