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Sevastopol was 180 meters ( 590 ft ) long at the waterline and 181 @.@ 2 meters ( 594 ft 6 in ) long overall . She had a beam of 26 @.@ 9 meters ( 88 ft 3 in ) and a draft of 8 @.@ 99 meters ( 29 ft 6 in ) , 49 centimeters ( 1 ft 7 in ) more than designed . Her displacement was 24 @,@ 800 tonnes ( 24 @,@ 400 long tons... |
Sevastopol 's machinery was built by the Baltic Works . Ten Parsons @-@ type steam turbines drove the four propellers . The engine rooms were located between turrets three and four in three transverse compartments . The outer compartments each had a high @-@ pressure ahead and reverse turbine for each wing propeller s... |
Her main armament consisted of a dozen Obukhovskii 12 @-@ inch ( 305 mm ) Pattern 1907 52 @-@ caliber guns mounted in four triple turrets distributed the length of the ship . The Russians did not believe that superfiring turrets offered any advantage as they discounted the value of axial fire and believed that superfi... |
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Sevastopol was built by the Baltic Works in Saint Petersburg . Her keel was laid down on 16 June 1909 and she was launched on 10 July 1911 . She was commissioned on 30 November 1914 and reached Helsingfors late the next month where she was assigned to the First Battleship Brigade of the Baltic Fleet . Sevastopol and h... |
The crew of the Sevastopol joined the Kronstadt Rebellion of March 1921 . She returned fire when the Bolsheviks began to bombard Kronstadt Island and was hit by three 12 @-@ inch shells that killed or wounded 102 sailors . After the rebellion was bloodily crushed , she was renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna after the Paris C... |
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She temporarily mounted an imported Heinkel aircraft catapult atop the third turret between 1930 and 1933 . It was transferred to the cruiser Krasnyi Kavkaz when Sevastopol began the first stage of her reconstruction in November 1933 . This was based on that done for her sister Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya , but was even... |
Her turrets were modified to use a fixed loading angle of 6 Β° and fitted with more powerful elevating motors which increased their rate of fire to two rounds per minute . Their maximum elevation was increased to 40 Β° which extended their range to 32 @,@ 320 yards ( 29 @,@ 550 m ) and they were redesignated as MK @-@ 3... |
Parizhskaya Kommuna finished the first stage of her reconstruction in January 1938 with unresolved stability issues derived from all of the additional topweight . The options to cure this were discussed at length until Marshal Voroshilov , the People 's Commissar for Defense approved the addition of anti @-@ torpedo b... |
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Four of Parizhskaya Kommuna 's 120 @-@ mm guns were landed shortly before 22 June 1941 . When the Germans invaded she was in Sevastopol , but she was evacuated to Novorossiysk 30 October after the Germans had breached Soviet defensive lines near the Perekop Isthmus . During 28 β 29 November she bombarded German and Ro... |
She was reclassified as a ' school battleship ' on 24 July 1954 and stricken on 17 February 1956 . She was scrapped at Sevastopol in 1956 β 57 .
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= Sherlock ( TV series ) =
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Sherlock is a British @-@ American crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes detective stories . Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss , it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson . Ten episodes have been produced , with three @-@... |
Critical reception has been highly positive , with many reviews praising the quality of the writing , performances , and direction . Sherlock has been nominated for numerous awards including : BAFTAs , Emmys , and a Golden Globe , winning several awards across a variety of categories . The show won in three categories... |
All of the series have been released on DVD and Blu @-@ ray , alongside tie @-@ in editions of selected original Conan Doyle stories and original soundtrack composed by David Arnold and Michael Price . In January 2014 , the show launched its official mobile app called Sherlock : The Network .
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Sherlock depicts " consulting detective " Sherlock Holmes ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) solving various mysteries in modern @-@ day London . Holmes is assisted by his flatmate and friend , Dr John Watson ( Martin Freeman ) , who has returned from military service in Afghanistan with the Royal Army Medical Corps . Although ... |
Although the series depicts a variety of crimes and perpetrators , Holmes ' conflict with archnemesis Jim Moriarty ( Andrew Scott ) is a recurring feature . Molly Hooper ( Louise Brealey ) , a pathologist at St. Bart 's Hospital , occasionally assists Holmes in his cases . Other recurring roles include Una Stubbs as M... |
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Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss , Sherlock Holmes fans with experience of adapting or using Victorian literature for television , devised the concept of the series . Moffat had previously adapted the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the 2007 series Jekyll , while Gatiss had written the Dickensian Doctor Who epi... |
Gatiss has criticized recent television adaptations of the Conan Doyle stories as " too reverential and too slow " , aiming instead to be as irreverent to the canon as the 1930s and 1940s films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce , which were mostly set in the then @-@ modern interwar era . Benedict Cumberbatch 's... |
The update maintains some traditional elements of the stories , such as the Baker Street address and Holmes 's adversary Moriarty . Although the events of the books are transferred to the present day , some elements are incorporated into the story . For example , Martin Freeman 's Watson has returned from military ser... |
Sherlock was announced as a single 60 @-@ minute drama production at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August 2008 , with broadcast set for mid to late 2009 . The intention was to produce a series of six 60 @-@ minute episodes should the pilot prove to be successful . The first version of the pilot β ... |
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Moffat and Vertue became interested in casting Cumberbatch as the title character after watching his performance in the 2007 film Atonement . The actor was cast after reading the script for the creative team . " Cumberbatch " , says The Guardian , " has a reputation for playing odd , brilliant men very well , and his ... |
In an interview with The Observer , co @-@ creator Mark Gatiss says that they experienced more difficulty finding the right actor to play Dr John Watson than they had for the title character . Producer Sue Vertue said , " Benedict was the only person we actually saw for [ the part of ] Sherlock ... Once Benedict was t... |
The writers said that Freeman 's casting developed the way in which Cumberbatch played Holmes . The theme of friendship appealed to both Gatiss and Moffat . Gatiss asserted the importance of achieving the correct tone for the character . " Watson is not an idiot , although it 's true that Conan Doyle always took the p... |
Rupert Graves was cast as DI Greg Lestrade . The writers referred to the character as " Inspector Lestrade " during development until Gatiss realised that in contemporary England the character would have the title " Detective Inspector " . Moffat and Gatiss pointed out that Lestrade does not appear often in the storie... |
Andrew Scott made his first appearance as Jim Moriarty in " The Great Game " . Moffat said , " We knew what we wanted to do with Moriarty from the very beginning . Moriarty is usually a rather dull , rather posh villain so we thought someone who was genuinely properly frightening . Someone who 's an absolute psycho . ... |
The remainder of the regular cast includes Una Stubbs ( who has known Cumberbatch since he was four years old , as she had worked with his mother Wanda Ventham ) as Mrs Hudson and co @-@ creator Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes . Vinette Robinson , Jonathan Aris and Louise Brealey play the recurring roles of Sergeant Sal... |
Amanda Abbington , Freeman 's real @-@ life partner , plays Mary Morstan , Watson 's girlfriend and eventual wife . In Series 3 , Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton , Cumberbatch 's real @-@ life parents , are introduced as Sherlock and Mycroft 's parents .
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Guest appearances included Phil Davis as Jefferson Hope , Paul Chequer as DI Dimmock , Zoe Telford as Sarah , Gemma Chan as Soo Lin Yao , John Sessions as Kenny Prince , Haydn Gwynne as Miss Wenceslas , Deborah Moore as one of Moriarty 's victims and Peter Davison as the voice @-@ over in the planetarium . Series two ... |
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The show was produced by Hartswood Films for BBC Wales , while BBC Worldwide also provided co @-@ production funding . Production was also co @-@ produced by PBS , a network of public @-@ service broadcasters in the United States , for WGBH @-@ TV 's Masterpiece Mystery ! strand . Filming of the pilot episode , writte... |
Gatiss says that they wanted to " fetishise modern London in the way that the period versions fetishise Victorian London " . Production was based at Hartswood Films ' Cardiff production unit , Hartswood Films West , which was opened in late 2009 to take advantage of the BBC 's planned Cardiff Bay " drama village " . P... |
Costumes for the pilot were designed by BAFTA Cymru award @-@ winning costume designer Ray Holman . Cumberbatch wore a Β£ 1 @,@ 000 Belstaff coat in the series . Sarah Arthur , the series ' costume designer , explained how she achieved the detective 's look . " Holmes wouldn 't have any interest in fashion so I went fo... |
The writers say that they did not want to force modernity onto the story . There were some creative challenges , such as the decision to include the sign " 221B " on Holmes ' front door . Gatiss and Moffat reflect that in the modern world the door would only display the number of the house , and there would be doorbel... |
The producers found it difficult to coordinate the schedules of the principal players and Moffat and Gatiss for a second series . Cumberbatch and Freeman both worked on the 2012 film The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey , and Moffat continued as Doctor Who 's showrunner and head writer . In response to the time pressure... |
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The theme and incidental music were composed by David Arnold and Michael Price . Arnold explains that he and Price worked with the producers to " come up with a central theme and character " for the series , then found what was " going to be the defining sound of this show " . Pieces were often constructed using synth... |
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Three series , each consisting of three episodes , have been produced . The first series was initially broadcast in July and August 2010 on the BBC , later premiering on Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) in the United States in October 2010 . A second series of three episodes was first broadcast in the UK in January... |
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The first episode , " A Study in Pink " , loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet , was written by Moffat and directed by Paul McGuigan . The story depicts the introduction of Sherlock to John , and them entering a flatshare at Baker Street in London , and then their investigation into a ... |
The second episode , " The Blind Banker " , was first broadcast on 1 August 2010 . Written by Stephen Thompson and directed by Euros Lyn , the episode depicts Holmes being hired by an old university acquaintance to investigate a mysterious break @-@ in at a bank in the City .
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The first series concluded with " The Great Game " , first broadcast on 8 August 2010 . The episode introduces the character of archenemy James Moriarty ( played by Andrew Scott ) to the series , who sets Holmes deadlines to solve a series of apparently unrelated cases . Written by Mark Gatiss and directed by McGuigan... |
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After the high ratings for " A Study in Pink " , the BBC were reportedly eager to produce more episodes . On 10 August 2010 , it was confirmed that Sherlock had been renewed for a second series . At the 2011 convention , Gatiss confirmed which stories would be adapted , and that the writers of the first series would e... |
" A Scandal in Belgravia " , written by Steven Moffat and directed by Paul McGuigan , was first broadcast on 1 January 2012 . Loosely based on " A Scandal in Bohemia " , the episode depicts Holmes 's quest to retrieve compromising photos of a minor royal held on the camera phone of Irene Adler ( Lara Pulver ) , a ruth... |
Mark Gatiss wrote " The Hounds of Baskerville " , which investigates the strange activities at a military base . Aware that The Hound of the Baskervilles , first published in 1902 , was one of the most famous of Conan Doyle 's original stories , Gatiss felt a greater responsibility to include familiar elements of the ... |
The second series concluded with " The Reichenbach Fall " . Steve Thompson wrote the episode , which was directed by Toby Haynes , who had previously directed many of Moffat 's Doctor Who episodes . First broadcast on 15 January 2012 , the episode follows Moriarty 's plot to discredit and kill Sherlock Holmes , conclu... |
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BBC One premiered a seven @-@ minute Sherlock mini @-@ episode over the 2013 Christmas period entitled " Many Happy Returns " . The episode is available via BBC iPlayer , BBC Red Button service , and BBCs YouTube channel , and acts as a prequel to the third series .
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The synopsis for the episode reads " Sherlock has been gone for two years . But someone isn 't quite convinced that he 's dead . " The ' someone ' turns out to be Anderson , the forensics technician from series 1 and 2 ( who has now lost his job due to his obsessive conviction that the detective still lives ) . He had... |
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After the end of the final episode of the second series , Moffat and Gatiss both announced on Twitter that a third series had been commissioned at the same time as series two , and a part of the resolution to " The Reichenbach Fall " was filmed concurrently with series two . Without revealing whether Moriarty also fak... |
" The Empty Hearse " , written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Jeremy Lovering , is the first episode of Series 3 and was first broadcast on 1 January 2014 . Inspired by " The Adventure of the Empty House " by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , the episode follows Sherlock Holmes ' return to London and reunion with John Watson ,... |
In " The Sign of Three " , written by Stephen Thompson , Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat , Watson and Mary Morstan get married . The episode takes place during the wedding reception and the story is told through flashbacks . The episode title is inspired by The Sign of the Four and was first broadcast on 5 January 2014 ... |
The final episode " His Last Vow " was first broadcast on 12 January 2014 , on BBC One , and written by Steven Moffat , directed by Nick Hurran and is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's " The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton " . This case leads Sherlock into conflict with Charles Augustus Magnussen ( Lars Mikke... |
The third series aired in the United States on PBS over a period of three weeks , airing late January to early February 2014 .
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On 2 July 2014 , it was announced there would be a special episode broadcast between the third and fourth series . Filming began on 5 January 2015 and wrapped on 10 February 2015 . Moffat confirmed the episode is set in Victorian London saying , " The special is its own thing . We wouldn β t have done the story we β r... |
In October 2015 , the title of the episode was announced as " The Abominable Bride " . It was broadcast on 1 January 2016 at 9 : 00 pm local time on BBC One in the UK , and on PBS in the US . The episode was simulcast in British cinemas on 1 January , and was shown on 5 and 6 January 2016 in selected cinemas throughou... |
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