Qualla: Russian destroyer Kazanets https://qualla.com/russian-destroyer-kazanets en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/8/9/russian-destroyer-kazanets-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Russian destroyer Kazanets https://qualla.com/russian-destroyer-kazanets Russian destroyer Kazanets: Introduction https://qualla.com/russian-destroyer-kazanets/ Photo credit Tanel Urm, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two dates mark the end of the destroyer Kazanets, and they sit thirteen days apart. Russian records give 15 October 1916. German records give 28 October. Both are correct. The Russian Empire still kept the Julian calendar that autumn, running just under two weeks behind the rest of Europe, so a ship could be lost twice on paper and only once in the water. She went down near the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, a few kilometres southeast of the low limestone island that Estonians call Osmussaar and Estonian Swedes called Odensholm - a stretch of sea her builders would have known well, because they built her a day's steaming away.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/8/9/russian-destroyer-kazanets-wp/ud89-russian-destroyer-kazanets-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Russian destroyer Kazanets: A Baltic Ship in the Fullest Sense https://qualla.com/russian-destroyer-kazanets/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Lange & Sohn laid her keel in 1904 at their shipyard in Riga, then a city of the Russian Empire's Governorate of Livonia and now the capital of Latvia. She was launched on 28 April 1905 and completed on 3 May 1906. Seven sisters came off the same slipways - the whole eight-ship U...

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