Model Ship Plan Russian Battleship Nikolai

Model Ship Plan Russian Battleship Nikolai

The model plan for Russian Battleship Nikolai I

Country: Russia, 1886
Scale of plan: 1:200
Scale of details: 1:100; 1:50
Quantity of sheets: 9 (A3 format)(11,7x16,5)
(these plans are made according to 1905)

Produced by the publishing house Private Military Historical Archives.

Nowadays the publishing house Private Military Historical Archives is the only one in Russian Federation that issues the ship drawing plans. All the plans are absolutely unique and authentic; they are not reproduced by anyone in the world. These plans are made by the technology of computer retrospective method based on the real Russian State Navy Archives materials.
There are no doubts that these plans will be useful and attractive for those, who are interesting in history, the specific information about Russian ships and also for ship models builders because you can build the REAL ship using these materials.
All the plans are issued in A3 format albums.

Prototype

Imperator Nikolai I (Nicholas I of Russia) - built by Galerniy yard St Petersburg - Laid down 1885, Launched 1889, Completed 1891.

The Imperator Nikolai I, an Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship, was formerly the flagship of the Russian Baltic Fleet. After sailing around the world in an epic voyage to its destruction at the Battle of Tsushima on 28 May 1905, some the surviving ships of the Baltic Fleet were captured and commissioned into the Japanese Navy. The Imperator Nikolai I became the Iki, which took her name from the ancient Japanese island province of Iki, now a part of Nagasaki prefecture. IJN Iki () was one of eight Russian pre-dreadnought battleships captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

Already very obsolete by the time of the Russo-Japanese War, on 12 December 1905, the Iki was re-classified as a 1st class Coastal Defense Vessel. It was used as a gunnery training ship from 1905 - 1910 and was decommissioned on 1 May 1915. It was expended as a gunnery target and sunk by the battleships Kong and Hiei on 3 October 1915.

General Characteristics

From Conway's All the world's Fighting Ships 1860 - 1905
Displacement: 9500 tons
Length: 101.65 m
Beam: 20.42 m
Draught: 7.87 m
Machinery: 2 shaft VC, 12 cylindrical boilers, 8500 hp
Speed: 15.3 knots
Armour: compound armour
Armament: 2 - 12 inch guns (one twin turret), 4 - 9 inch guns (4x1), 8 - 6 inch guns, 10 - 47mm guns, 10 - 37mm guns 5 - 15 inch torpedo tubes
Crew: 611