Model Ship Plan Russian Battleship Petropavlovsk Model Ship Plan Russian Battleship Petropavlovsk
The model plan for Russian Pre-Dreadnought battleship Petropavlovsk
Country: Russian, 1894
Scale of plan: 1:200
Scale of details: 1:100; 1:50
Quantity of sheets: 10 (A3 format)(11,7x16,5)
(these plans are made according to 1902)
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
The Petropavlovsk-class ships were Pre-Dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy. All three ships fought and were lost in the Russo-Japanese war. Two ships were destroyed and one was captured by the Japanese.
Petropavlovsk - named after the battle of Petropavlovsk in the Crimean War, laid down at Galerniy Yard, St. Petersburg, in May 1892, launched in November 1894 and commissioned in 1897. She was transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1901 and was the flagship of Admiral Stepan Makarov. She was sunk by a Japanese mine on 31 March 1904. Admiral Makarov and his guest, Russian battle artist Vasily Vereshchagin were lost with the ship
In 1901, with tensions between Russia and Japan rising, the Petropavlovsk was assigned to the East Asia Squadron (later to become the First Pacific Squadron) of which she becomes the flagship.
At the beginning of Russo-Japanese war, in March and early April of 1904, she was involved in actions against the Japanese under the newly arrived Admiral Stepan Makarov. On April 13, 1904 the Petropavlovsk struck a mine off Port Arthur and went down with a large number of her crew including Admiral Makarov and famous Russian battle painter Vassily Vereshchagin. Among people on board the battleship who survived the sinking was Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, cousin of Emperor Nicholas II.
