Gangut

13.8

Gangut

Battleship | U.S.S.R. | Tier IV

Tech Tree Position

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General

Research price6700 exp

Purchase price765,000

Hit Points37,600

Main Battery

305 mm/52 Model 1907 in a Metal Works Plant turret4 х 3 pcs.

Rate of Fire1.67 shots/min.

Reload Time36 sec.

Rotation Speed3.2 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time56.25 sec.

Firing Range12.41 km.

Maximum Dispersion180 m.

HE Shell305 mm HE Model 1911

Maximum HE Shell Damage4,500

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell33 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity762 m./s.

HE Shell Weight470.9 kg.

AP Shell305 mm AP Model 1911

Maximum AP Shell Damage8,600

Initial AP Shell Velocity762 m./s.

AP Shell Weight470.9 kg.

Secondary Armament #1

120 mm/50 Model 1905 on a Vickers mounting16 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range4 km.

Rate of Fire7 shots/min.

Reload Time8.57 sec.

HE Shell120 mm HE Model 1907

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,700

Initial HE Shell Velocity823 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

AA Defense

75 mm Model 1892 on a Meller AA mounting8 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second15.2

. . . Firing Range3 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed23 knot

Turning Circle Radius660 m.

Rudder Shift Time14.3 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range13.21 km.

Air Detectability Range8.86 km.

Battle Levels

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13.8

Gangut

Battleship | U.S.S.R. | Tier IV

Tech Tree Position

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General

Research price6700 exp

Purchase price765,000

Hit Points40,500

Main Battery

305 mm/52 Model 1907 in a Metal Works Plant turret4 х 3 pcs.

Rate of Fire1.67 shots/min.

Reload Time36 sec.

Rotation Speed3.2 deg./sec.

180 Degree Turn Time56.25 sec.

Firing Range13.65 km.

Maximum Dispersion180 m.

HE Shell305 mm HE Model 1911

Maximum HE Shell Damage4,500

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell33 %

Initial HE Shell Velocity762 m./s.

HE Shell Weight470.9 kg.

AP Shell305 mm AP Model 1911

Maximum AP Shell Damage8,600

Initial AP Shell Velocity762 m./s.

AP Shell Weight470.9 kg.

Secondary Armament #1

120 mm/50 Model 1905 on a Vickers mounting16 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range4 km.

Rate of Fire7 shots/min.

Reload Time8.57 sec.

HE Shell120 mm HE Model 1907

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,700

Initial HE Shell Velocity823 m./s.

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

AA Defense

75 mm Model 1892 on a Meller AA mounting8 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second15.2

. . . Firing Range3 km.

IDS_PRGA128_MACHINEGUNMAXIM_7_624 х 1 pcs.

. . . Average Damage per Second6.8

. . . Firing Range0.99 km.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed23 knot

Turning Circle Radius660 m.

Rudder Shift Time10.2 sec.

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range13.21 km.

Air Detectability Range8.86 km.

Battle Levels

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IV

765,000

Gangut — Soviet Tier IV battleship.

At the end of 1907, after the requirement specifications for the new battleship had been determined, the Shipbuilding and Procurement Bureau sent out invitations to Russian and foreign shipbuilding companies to participate in the tender. 9 projects were selected out of 23 submitted, and the project from Baltic Works was considered the best. The construction of four new battleships—Poltava, Petropavlovsk, Sevastopol, and Gangut—lasted from 1909 until 1911. The latter served in the Navy until the end of the 1950s.

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
305 mm/52 Model 1907 in a Metal Works Plant turret	1.7	56.3	180	4,500	33	8,600		0	94,000

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Gangut (A)	37,600	13	305	4	16	8				0	128,000
Gangut (B)	40,500	13	305	4	16	4/8				2,000	280,000

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
GFCS IV mod. 1		0		0	40,000
GFCS IV mod. 2		0		1,300	180,000

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 42,000 hp	23		0	30,000

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2

Player Opinion

Performance

Warning: The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.
Refer to the in-game Port screens for more useful data.

Coming from Knyaz Suvorov, Gangut is sure to feel like a welcome improvement thanks mainly to the centerline turret layout which allows 75% of the main battery to be fired while still giving favorable hull angles to deflect or absorb incoming fire. Captains who own either Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya or Imperator Nikolai I will find adjusting to this ship to be a rather pain-free experience due to their similarities. However, since Gangut is a tech tree Russian battleship, it does not have the longer range accuracy found on the aforementioned premium ships and instead must close the distance with enemy ships to land more than singular random hits. This is somewhat easily accomplished by her 23-knot top speed which ties Gangut for second-fastest BB of the tier alongside Kaiser, meaning she will be able to (slowly) run down or outrun most other battleships in her matchmaking spread.

Pros:

• Good rudder shift time when upgraded to B-hull.
• Superstructure is small and the ship's 32 mm outer plating makes her highly resistant to HE spam.
• The main guns have good firing arcs, accuracy, and penetration.
• Damage control has a fast cooldown.

Cons:

• Detection range is higher than maximum possible firing range without commander skills and camo.
• Same poor reload time as Knyaz Suvorov.
• Slightly improved, but still poor AA defense.
• High and under-protected citadel is easily hit if not angled. The ship's armour is ineffective against battleship guns.
• No torpedo blisters means only a 9% reduction in damage from torpedo hits.
• Damage control has limited charges.

Research

The research path of Gangut is relatively simple – players are encouraged to first unlock the (B) hull to increase ship health, anti-aircraft armament, and rudder response time, and finish with the fire control upgrade, which allows for a 10% firing range upgrade.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades for Gangut are as follows:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1
• Slot 2: Damage Control System Modification 1 

Commander Skills

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack			Defense
1	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type. ★	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance when firing at submarines.	Consumables Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party ,  Repair Party .	Emergency Repair Specialist -3% cooldown time of Damage Control Party  and Repair Party . ★★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning about a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5 km.	Preventive Maintenance −30% chance of main armament, engines, steering becoming incapacitated +15% to HP of secondary and AA guns. ★
2	Grease the Gears +20% main turret traverse speed. ★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells. Base fire chance reduced by half.	Brisk So long as the ship remains undetected: +10% ship speed.	Vigilance +25% detection range of enemy torpedoes +7% damage reduction of Torpedo Protection System. . ★	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★	AAA & ASW Expert +15% continuous AAA and flak damage . +10% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −40% ship consumables reload time..
3	Super-Heavy AP Shells +7.5% AP shell damage −10% fire and flood damage received +25% fire and flood duration. ★	Long-Range Secondary Battery Shells +20% secondary battery firing range.	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Basics of Survivability -15% repair, fire, and flooding duration. ★★	Improved Repair Party Readiness −0.8% reload time of Repair Party each time your ship receives potential damage equal to 100% of the ship's base HP. After receiving 2M HP potential damage: +1 charge of Repair Party ..	Focus Fire Training In an active priority AA sector: •  +1.5% (to 5%) immediate damage. •  +25% continuous damage. •  +1 flak burst per salvo. −10% aircraft preparation time. −15% reload time of Airstrike armament..
4	Furious 1st fire / flood   −10% Main battery reload time 2nd etc. (up to 5), each   −5% Main battery reload time	Manual Secondary Battery Aiming −10% secondary battery reload time. −10% secondary battery dispersion. When firing at a manually selected target: dispersion gradually improves from -25% to -50%.	Close Quarters Combat -10% reload time of main battery if an enemy ship is spotted within secondary range. ★	Emergency Repair Expert Damage Control Party  and Repair Party : +1 charge (each). +10% action time . ★★★	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★★	Fire Prevention Expert -10% risk of fire. Three fires maximum. ★★★
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Gangut equips the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Fast Damage Control Team 
• Slot 2: Repair Party 

Keep in mind that while the damage control team is very efficient, it can be used a limited number of times before becoming exhausted.

Signals

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Juliet Charlie -100% to the risk of magazine detonation. ★	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration. ★	India Yankee -20% to fire duration. ★★★	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy. ★	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding.	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating.
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding. +5% to the risk of your ship's magazine detonating.	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time. ★	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed. ★★	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables. ★★	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used. ★★★
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator .	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire .

Note: Use of the Juliet Charlie signal makes detonation impossible.

Gallery

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Historical Info

Gangut, 1914

Construction

Builder: Admiralty Yards; St. Petersburg, Russia

Laid down: 16 June 1909

Launched: 7 October 1911

Commissioned: 4 November 1914

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Specifications

23,288 tons displacement, normal

26,900 tons displacement, full

181.2m length

26.9m beam

9.2m draft (full)

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Machinery

Twenty-five (25) Yarrow boilers

Four (4) Parsons geared steam turbines

3,000 tons coal, 1,170 tons oil

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Performance

23 knots at 42,000 shaft horsepower

1,500 nm at 14 knots

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Armor

Main belt: 225mm

Upper belt: 125mm

Upper deck: 38mm

Main deck: 12mm with 50mm turtleback

Bulkheads: 125-100mm

Barbettes: 150mm

Turrets: 203mm

Conning tower: 250mm

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Armament

Main

Twelve (4x3) 305mm/52 Pattern 1907

Secondary

Sixteen (16x1) 120mm/50 Vickers Pattern 1905

Four (4x1) 47mm/40 Hotchkiss

Torpedoes

Four (4x1) 450mm (submerged beam)

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CAPTION.

History

Gangut (Russian: Гангут) was both the lead ship of the Gangut-class dreadnoughts of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I and the last of her class to be completed. She was named after the Russian victory over the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut in 1714. She was completed during the winter of 1914–1915, but was not ready for combat until mid-1915. Her role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so she spent her time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Her crew joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution and joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. She was laid up in 1918 for lack of manpower and not recommissioned until 1925, by which time she had been renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (Russian: Октябрьская революция: October Revolution).
She was reconstructed between 1931 and 1934 with new boilers, fire-control systems and greatly enlarged superstructures. During the Winter War she bombarded Finnish coastal artillery positions once. Her anti-aircraft armament was greatly reinforced in early 1941, just before Operation Barbarossa. She provided gunfire support against the Germans during the Siege of Leningrad despite being bombed three times and under repair for a year. Retained on active duty after the war she became a training ship in 1954 before being struck off the Navy List in 1956 and slowly scrapped.

Design

Service

The lead ship or last member of her class depending on who you ask (the class is known as the Sevestapol-class in Russia, and Gangut-class abroad), Gangut was officially laid down on 16 June 1909 at the Admiralty Shipyards in Saint Petersburg. Work on the ship did not begin until the fall due to the designs not being complete, and even then construction was rather slow as funding was not allocated to the construction of these ships until May of 1911. Gangut had the misfortunate of being the last of her sisters to be launched, later that year. Her luck early in life was not great, and after completion she collided with one of her sisters, delaying her trials by almost two months. However after brief trials, on 11 January 1915 she was commissioned into the Imperial Russian Navy.

Like her sisters, Gangut was sent to Helsingfors (Helsinki) and became part of the First Battleship Brigade, composed of the four Sevestapol-class dreadnought battleships. The most powerful formation in the Russian Navy, it was not particularly active as even after commissioning the Russian dreadnoughts were still not quite ready for combat. The first combat mission of Gangut came on 27 August 1915, where she and Sevestapol provided distant cover for a mine laying operation off the southwest coast of Latvia. In September she suffered minor damage after running aground and later that year, on 1 November, she suffered a mutiny due to her crew not receiving the expected meat & macaroni after coaling (an extremely labor-intensive task). 10 days later she conducted another distant cover operation for another mine laying mission with her sister Petropavlovsk, her last major operation of the war. She sat idle in port until the mutiny of the Baltic fleet on 16 March 1917, which her sailors joined – ultimately resulting in the deaths of some 50 officers, including the fleet admiral.

After the defeat of Russia in the Great War and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Baltic fleet was forced to leave their haunt, which now belonged to the new nation of Finland. Gangut and the other dreadnoughts formed the vanguard of the Russian ships leaving the port on 12 March 1918, reaching the main Baltic naval base of Kronsthadt after five days. Their path was cleared by icebreakers, due to much of the Baltic being frozen at this time of the year, and thus the evacuation became known as the ‘Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet’.

With the Russian Civil War in full swing, most of the Baltic fleet was short on crew, and thus many of it’s ships were laid up – including Gangut in November 1918. The remains of the Baltic fleet continued to be wracked by the trauma of the revolution, culminating in the Kronsthadt revolution that effectively ended it. It was not until the mid-1920s that anyone paid Gangut attention again, and during a minor refit, on 27 June 1925, she was re-named Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya. Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya was commissioned into the Soviet Navy on 23 March 1926. On 12 October 1931 she began a three-year reconstruction which extensively upgraded the ship, replacing all of her boilers and installing new turbines, fitting a new clipper bow, upgraded anti-aircraft armament, and also giving a total overhaul to her fire control equipment, the Geisler-Pollen system was replaced, due to the lack of readiness of the new Soviet computer (APKN), by a Vickers computer (AKUR). Galileo 8-meter stereoscopic rangefinders were placed in the turrets, while two KDP-6 directors each with two DM-6 6-meter stereoscopic rangefinders were fitted aloft. Overall, her displacement increased, but the addition of so much top weight resulted in decreased stability.

After her modernization was completed on 4 August 1934, her life consisted of little more than time at anchor and the odd exercise, until the Winter War, which began in November of 1939. She and her sister Marat (ex-Petropavlovsk) bombarded Finnish coastal fortifications and shore batteries, but were driven off by coastal artillery before significant damage could be done. The Baltic waters froze over soon after that effectively the involvement of Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya in the Winter War. Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya was also involved in operations against the Baltic states as Soviet Russia took advantage of German aggression in the west to invade, entering the port of Tallinn after the Red Army seized Estonia. She was sent back to Kronshtadt for a minor anti-aircraft armament upgrade, and after completion was sent back to Tallinn.

When the Third Reich invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya was still in Tallinn, but fled shortly after to Kronshtadt once again. By late 1941 she as lending fire support to Soviet forces trying to prevent German forces from reaching Leningrad, and even landed some of her secondary battery guns to aid in the defense. On 21 September she took three bomb hits that disabled her two forward main battery turrets and damaged her bows, and she was send for repairs in yards at Leningrad on 23 October. Efforts to increase her anti-aircraft armament were made, but before repairs could be completed she was damaged by four bombs in an air raid on 4 April 1942, and another three hits were suffered on 24 April. Finally, repairs were completed in November, and she went back to providing fire support for the besieged city. When the 872-day siege broke in January of 1944, she provided fire support for Soviet offensives as the began to push west, particularly during the Karelian campaign. For her actions, on 22 July 1944 she received the Order of the Red banner.

For all her service, however, the usefulness of Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya came to an end, and she was after all a thoroughly obsolete design. As a result, for a 10-year period from 1944 to 1954 she languished at anchor until being re-rated as a static training ship on 24 July 1954, with its engines dismantled, until being stricken on 17 February 1956. Towed to Kronshtadt, she was scrapped, the job being completed in 1959 (although the ship’s anchors and some anti-aircraft guns exist as monuments at Anchor Square in Kronshtadt today).

In-game historical inaccuracies

• Gangut is represented in original World War I condition, when she served with the Imperial Russian Navy. See Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya for the Soviet version.
• Rate of fire of the main battery guns is actually 1.8 rounds per minute, not 1.67.
• Firing range of the 120 mm secondary guns is actually 13.7 km, not a measly 4 km.
• All six searchlights are missing. They are located on the bridge, second funnel and mainmast. Only the base sections are modelled.
• Original AA armament of only one 76.2 mm Lender gun on the quarterdeck is missing.
• AA armament from 1916 consisted of either two 63.3 mm Model 1916 and one QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss (for Gangut and Petropavlovsk) or two 75 mm/48 Canet and one 40 mm/39 Vickers (for Sevastopol and Poltava). These AA guns were located atop the fore and aft turrets (see historical gallery). The whopping eight 75 mm Model 1892 AA guns occupying every turret top is a fabrication by Wargaming.

Historical Gallery

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  Sevastopol c. 1916-17

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  Sevastopol during the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet

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  Poltava c. 1918

References

1. Russian battleship Gangut (1911) - Wikipedia
2. Gangut-class battleship - Wikipedia
3. Marat: Story of a Veteran - Wikipedia
4. Battleship Petropavlovsk at 1:42 Scale - News - World of Warships
5. 1:42 Scale: Petropavlovsk - World of Warships Official Channel - YouTube
6. Marat: The History of Veteran - World of Warships Official Channel - YouTube

Ship Change Log

See here for links to Update notes.

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.8.1.

Testing Changes

• Jan 25, 2019:
  • Preliminary characteristics.
• Mar 13, 2019:
  • Dispersion formula changed:
    • Horizontal and vertical dispersion depending on distance now changes more smoothly. Inside of 12 km accuracy was slightly reduced.
  • Damage Control Party duration decreased to 10 s.
• Mar 29, 2019:
  • Sigma parameter decreased from 1.7 to 1.4.
  • Stock main battery firing range decreased from 14.13 to 12.31 km.
  • Detection ranges changed:
    • Detectability range by sea increased from 10.62 to 13.62 km.
    • Detectability after firing main guns in smoke increased from 8.27 to 10.42 km.
    • Detectability range by air increased from 7.68 to 8.86 km.
• Apr 10, 2019:
  • Main battery reload time increased from 32 to 36 s.

• Introduced into the game as a researchable ship in Update 0.8.4.
• Update 0.9.4:
  • The stock firing range was increased from 12.3 to 12.4 km.
• Update 0.10.0:
  • The firing range of the secondary battery was increased to 4 km.

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