Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1894)/archive1

TFA blurb review
Sturm, we're almost done with the blurbs for articles promoted at FAC in 2018. Would you like to do the honors for this one? (The last sentence will be "".) - Dank (push to talk) 03:21, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Petropavlovsk was the lead ship of her class of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the last decade of the 19th century. Named for the successful Russian defense during the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk, the ship was sent to the Far East almost immediately after entering service in 1899. She participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion the next year and served as the flagship of the First Pacific Squadron. Petropavlovsk played a minor role in the Battle of Port Arthur, the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian squadron that opened the Russo-Japanese War, in February 1904. The ship sank on 13 April after striking one or more mines near Port Arthur, in northeast China. Casualties numbered 27 officers and 652 enlisted men, including Vice Admiral Stepan Makarov, the commander of the squadron, and the war artist Vasily Vereshchagin.
 * How's this? 968 characters, finally remembering to include the terminal sentence.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:04, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks great. - Dank (push to talk) 16:30, 13 December 2019 (UTC)