 At this time a more detailed assessment was made of the situation and 259 steel projections were discovered on the underside of her hull, left over from her launching cradles.These ranged in length from and totally invalidated all calculations about the amount of force required to free her.The capsizing of the battleship "Novorossiysk" in Sevastopol harbor on 29 October 1955 delayed salvage operations on "Stalingrad" until the end of the year.