Model Ship Plan Russian Cruiser VARYAG <!-- .1 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } -->
Model Ship Plan Russian Cruiser Varyag
The model plan for Russian Cruiser Varyag
Country: Russia, 1901
Scale of plan: 1:200
Scale of details: 1:100; 1:50; 1:20
Quantity of sheets: 13 (A3 format)(11,7x16,5)
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.
The plans are ABSOLUTELY completed, including not only the forms and shapes of the ship, but also lines drawing, profiles and sections for all sides; plan has the very detailed view to the armor, life-boats and motorboats, pieces of decoration, the smallest elements of construction.
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Prototype
Russian cruiser Varyag
Varyag (also spelled Variag) was a Russian protected cruiser that is well known in the military history of Russia. The Imperial Admiralty contracted William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to build the ship, and her keel was laid in October 1898. Launched on October 31, 1899, she was commissioned into the Imperial Russian Navy on January 2, 1901.
Cruiser Varyag in the Golden Horn Bay of Vladivostok, 1903.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 19041905, Varyag (under the command of Vsevolod Rudnev) accepted a badly unequal battle with the Japanese squadron of Admiral Uriu (one armoured cruiser, five protected cruisers and eight destroyers) during her heroic breakthrough from Chemulpo (Incheon) harbour February 9, 1904. Having lost 31 men dead, 191 injured (out of 570) and outgunned, the crew decided not to surrender, but to sink the ship. The crew was saved.
The Varyag was later salvaged by the Japanese and repaired. She served with the Imperial Japanese Navy as light cruiser Soya. During World War I, Russia and Japan were allies and several ships were transferred by the Japanese to the Russians. She was returned to the Imperial Russian Navy at Vladivostok on April 5, 1916 and renamed Varyag. She was sent to Great Britain for an overhaul, and was due to re-enter service with the Arctic squadron of the Russian Navy. However, following the Russian October Revolution on December 8, 1917 she was seized by the British and sold to Germany in 1920 for scrap. That same year, while undertow in the Firth of Clyde, she ran aground on rocks near the Scottish village of Lendalfoot, and was scrapped there. She finally sank in 1925, disappearing forever.
Specifications
Displacement: 6,500 t
Length: 129.6 m (425.2 ft)
Beam: 15.8 m (51.8 ft)
Draft: 6.3 m (20.7 ft)
Armament: 12-6 in (152 mm), 12-75 mm, 6-47 mm, 6 torpedo launchers
Speed: 23 kts
Complement: 570
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