Russian cruiser Pallada (1906)

	Pallada at anchor
History
Russian Empire
Name	Pallada
Namesake	Pallas Athena
Builder	Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Laid down	August 1905
Launched	10 November 1906
Completed	21 February 1911
Fate	Sunk, 11 October 1914
General characteristics
Class & type	Bayan-class armored cruiser
Displacement	7,750 long tons (7,874 t) standard
Length	449.6 ft (137.0 m)
Beam	57 ft 6 in (17.5 m)
Draught	22 ft (6.7 m)
Installed power	16,500 ihp (12,300 kW); 26 Belleville boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 VTE steam engines;
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	568 (597 at sinking)
Armament	2 × 1 - 203 mm (8 in) guns; 8 × 1 - 152 mm (6 in) guns; 20 × 1 - 75 mm (3.0 in) guns; 4 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) guns; 2 × 15 in (381 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Krupp armor; Waterline belt: 90–175 mm (3.5–6.9 in); Deck: 50 mm (2.0 in); Gun turrets: 132 mm (5.2 in); Casemates: 60 mm (2.4 in); Conning tower: 136 mm (5.4 in);

Pallada (Russian: Паллада) was the last of the four Bayan-class armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the Baltic Fleet during World War I where she captured codebooks from the German cruiser Magdeburg that had run aground during the first month of the war. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in October 1914 and exploded; none of the crew survived. Pallada was the first warship lost by the Russians during the war.