Gangut Explained

Gangut (Гангут) is the Russian transliteration of the Swedish name (Hangö udd) for Hanko Peninsula. It may have the following meanings:

• The Battle of Gangut in 1714
  • Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy named after the battle:
    • Russian ship of the line Gangut (1719), 92-gun first rate ship of the line, launched in 1719
    • Russian ship of the line Gangut (1825), 84-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1825, participated in Battle of Navarino, converted to screw in 1854, training ship in 1862, decommissioned in 1871
      • • • • • Russian coast defense ship Gangut (1888) Russian battleship Gangut (1911) Gangut-class battleship
• The Russian name for the town of Hanko during the time Finland was a Grand duchy of the Russian Empire.
• The "Invincible Gangut" (Непокоренный Гангут), the Hanko Soviet naval base in Finland 1940–41 leased by Finland to the Soviet Union in the Moscow Peace Treaty that ended the Winter War.