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The Russian juggernaut ROMANOV
Worldshaker was built in England at the end of the Fifty Years War and launched in 1845. Still the largest juggernaut in existence, she is now slower than the Prussian, Austrain and Russian juggernauts.
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SOME VITAL STATISTICS
Russian juggernaut. Built at Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa, 1863-74.
Length: front section, 930 metres; total length, 2,406 metres
Width: front section, 770 metres
Height: to top deck, 480 metres; to main crows nest, 512 metres
Weight: front section, 1,898,5505 tonnes; total, 3,214,603 tonnes
Tracks: 144 pairs
Ruler (figurehead): Tsar Alexander VI
Commander: Count Nikolai Tomashevski
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