Dvenadsat Apostolov () was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the sole ship of her class. She entered service in 1893 with the Black Sea Fleet, but was not fully ready until 1894. The ship participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, Dvenadsat Apostolov became an immobile submarine depot ship the following year. The ship was captured by the Germans in 1918 in Sevastopol and was handed over to the Allies in December. Lying immobile in Sevastopol, she was captured by both sides in the Russian Civil War before she was abandoned when the White Russians evacuated the Crimea in 1920. Dvenadsat Apostolov was used as a stand-in for the title ship during the 1925 filming of The Battleship Potemkin before she was finally scrapped in 1931. Design Dvenadsat Apostolov was originally ordered as one of a pair of battleships for the Black Sea Fleet, but the second ship was awarded to a firm on the verge of bankruptcy and they made no significant progress. Her initial armament was planned to be eight guns, four in two twin-gun turrets and the remainder in the central casemate. After construction of the hull began in early 1888, the Naval Technical Committee in September decided to increase the thickness of the waterline armor belt from to in exchange for a further in displacement. It also decided to move the forward turret back because it thought that the ship might be bow-heavy, and revise the armament to four guns in twin-gun barbettes at each end of the ship with four guns in a shortened casemate. Altogether these changes, including the extra armor, added over of weight to the ship. General characteristics Dvenadsat Apostolov was long at the waterline and long overall. She had a beam of and a draft of . Her exact displacement was never measured, but has been estimated at , over more than her designed displacement of . Her hull form was generally similar to that of the although her ram was longer. The hull was subdivided by eleven transverse and one centerline longitudinal watertight bulkheads and she had a complete double bottom deep. The ship had a metacentric height of . Dvenadsat Apostolov demonstrated better seakeeping qualities than the older during a storm in October 1894, although she rolled badly and leaked through her ports and hatches.