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Aviso "Spike"
Serial issuance of the small river boats becoming, as a matter of fact, first-ever armored boats, has been started in Russia in 1903. Russian military department has been solved to create on the Amur River "a moving defense ". At the Putilov factory ten aviso have been ordered: "Bayonet", "Bullet", "Dagger", "Pistol", "Rapier", "Sword", "Spear", "Sabre", "Broadsword", "Spike". A lead ship "Bayonet" have left on Baltic, and remaining nine have shipped by rail to Amur River.
Exigency for such vessels has induced Russian command to throw to the west in 1914 seven Amur boats for battles with Finns.
Four boats: "Dagger", "Rapier", "Sabre", "Bayonet" have been directed to Black Sea and helped in the WW I in Serbia, defended the Danube coast. They have captured by German troops in Sevastopol in 1918, one have transferred to Turkey, remaining appeared on Caspian Sea in structure of a White Guard flotilla.
"Spike" and "Spear" participated in Civil war on the Far East. "Spear" has been withdrawn by Japanese to Sakhalin, in 1925 has been returned in the USSR. They participated in battles on China Military Railroad in 1929 and in rout Japanese Kvantun armies in August, 1945. Only in 1954 these ships have been excluded from lists of fleet. Displacement - 23.5 ton, Capacity of 2 engines - 200 h.p., Rate of sailing - 15 knots, Arms - a gun of 76 mm, 2 machine guns.
Marine Subchaser
Marine subchaser MO-4 is the second ship in a series of resin kits in scale 1/144. The ship is carried out with a top quality of manufacture of separate details. The length of model makes 200 mm. Besides it is reserved original corrugation of decks and arrangement of securing rivets and bolts on details of a superstructure. Into the kit included 5 carefully made crew figurines in scale 1/144 and a wood support with shield on which the period when this ship shared in WW II operations is specified.
River armored boat BKA-1125
Prior to the beginning of the second world war, three projects were begun for the building of armored boats: The two-gun BK-1124, the one-gun 1125 and the S-40. By June, 1941 85 boats had been built and 68 more were commissioned. The boats were to be used on the constrained river fairways in immediate proximity to the shores held by the opponents. The sizes of a boats allowed throwing them quickly on railway cars and moving them from one battlefield to another. The additional installation of the "Katiusha" volley fire system on the boats increased the efficiency of boats considerably. The boats active participated in operations on the Volga, Azov, Danube, Dnepr flotillas, on the Black Sea and with the Baltic Sea fleets. Because of their versatility and damage tolerance, along with their use of turrets from the legendary tanks T-34, these armored boats were called "River tanks".
Soviet motor torpedo boat "Komsomolets" WW II
These ships have acted on arms in August, 1944. They have been built on voluntary payments of Russian people and consequently some from them besides numbers have received titles "The Tyumen worker", "The Tyumen komsomolets", "The Tyumen pioneer". Boats had a duralumin hull with a length of 18.7 m, breadth of 3.4 m. The boat full speed was up to 48 knots. The arms were consisted of 2 machine-gun installations, coupled heavy-caliber DTK machine guns and 2 torpedo launchers of caliber of 450 mms.
The deck house had armoring. The crew is 7 persons. These boats have shown the high battle qualities in the spring of 1945 when a Red Army troops with heavy battles were advanced to Berlin.
Sub Chaser OD-200
In first years of WWII on the basis of a wood hull of torpedo motorboat D-3, the unified hull for thr small sub chaser OD-200 has been projected.
In total 334 small sub chasers such as MO-2, MO-4 and OD-200 have been built. Small sub chasers became the most universal ships of Great Domestic war.
They landed landing parties, carried patrol service, escorted transports, escorted submarines and suppressed fire points on coast.
Boats were used on Black Sea and Northern fleets. After the WW II the part of boats has been transmitted to the Navy of Belgium and Bulgaria.
Soviet torpedo motorboat G-5 WW II
Torpedo motorboat G-5 was the most spread boat of the Soviet construction within WW II, is projected by A.N. Tupolev. In total it has been built more than 200 units.
In 1942 on the Black Sea fleet boats such as G-5, equipped with jet systems of a volley fire for the first time have been successfully applied.
G-5 boat participated in operations on the Baltic fleet, Black Sea fleet, Pacific fleet, the Caspian military flotilla, the Onega military flotilla.
100-mm buoyant battery DB
They were rather unusual ships. The first buoyant batteries DB type have been created on the Volga military flotilla in 1942.
At creation of buoyant artillery batteries experience of application of the coupled landing motor-boats for transportation of automobiles and other large-sized cargoes made use.
Thanking a simple construction, these platforms could dismount and be transported quickly on railway platforms.
In total 11 buoyant batteries have been released.
Lewis Nixon's torpedo boat (Great War - WW II)
In 1904 Russian marine ministry has booked in the Flint & Co., NY ten ships of a coast defense of a construction of known American shipbuilder Lewis Nixon.
These vessels have been equipped with high-power arms; the newest on those times gasoline engines and had a shallow draft.
In three months 9 of torpedo boats have been supplied to Sevastopol in the taken apart kind where have been built. Lewis Nixon was in Constantinople, expecting occurrence of one of torpedo boats under the American flag, it’s considered personal yacht and having "Greg's" "civilian" title, and on it the engineer has insisted what to test seagoing capacities of torpedo boats. Transition of strange "yacht" through Atlantic Ocean has passed safely.
Till 1906 all ten torpedo boats were part of the Black Sea fleet of Russia. In 1907 they have been thrown to Baltic where were registered on sentry boats. With the beginning of the Great War these ships were used as marine hunters. After 1918 these ships have been laid up. In 1937 torpedo boats have been converted in small hunters. It's interesting, that boat that has crossed Atlantic Ocean as Lewis Nixon’s yacht, has still served on Baltic Sea during the WW II as the small hunter, on-board number ??-312. It is known, what even after 1950 it was used as a transport vessel.
Kit 14409 - “Alabama” 1819 resin ships in scale 1:144
Combating pirates required small, fast, lightly armed craft, just like the pirates used.
William Doughty, the naval constructor, designed .three new classes of cutters. It carried one gun on a pivot mount and was rigged as a topsail schooner. Two cutters, ALABAMA and LOUISIANA, were built on this plan and were commissioned in 1819.
Last mention of these vessels meets in 1834.
Mine Sweeper "Mine"
The first mine-sweeper constructed in the USSR, began a trawler such as the "trawl" launched in 1934. Armed with the trawls, 100-mm gun, antiaircraft guns and depth charges, these 450-ton ships with a diesel installation in 300 h.p. developed speed up to 21 knots. War has expanded sphere of battle usage of this class of the ships. Besides clearing fairways of mines, they put mine-fields, conducted anti-submarine scrambling, escorted transport ships, evacuated a troops and civilians, landed landing parties in rear of the opponent and supported their fire of the artillery. These ships participated on all fronts of the WW II and long worked after its ending, having neutralized in general about 20 thousand mines.
Length - 62 m, width - 7 m, armour 100-mm gun - 1, 45-mm gun - 1, 37-mm gun - 3, Mines - 40 pcs..
Guard Ship
Before the WW II it there were fish trawlers displacement of 1000 tons with velocity up to 10 knots. On a beginning of WW II on Northern fleet there were 47 trawler ships. Half from them has been converted in minesweepers and guard ships. Command of Northern fleet has appointed a small military crew to each ship: the officer, the signalman and experts on weapon. The remaining crew was made by fishermen. These ships fulfilled long-term patrols in any weather, escorting of single transports and escorts, fire support of marines, a troop movement and combat material, search of minefields, rescue of damaged vessels.
So, on "Gulf Stream", one of the ships of this class, a trunk of 45-mm gun, maintaining 3 thousand rounds, three times changed! Heroic battle of the ship of this series "Passat" which has accepted unequal battle with three German destroyers - Z10 "Hans Lody" Z7 "Herman Schoemann" and Z20 "Karl Galster" is known. The Soviet seamen have not trembled, have accepted unequal battle. Despite of damages and an expanding fire, crew struggled up to the last. As a result of this battle (two 45-mm guns against 15 long-range 127-mm enemy's guns) the ship has sunk. From 56 person of a crew it was salvaged two. Since 1943 on Northern fleet new combat ships of a special block construction began to act, and the mobilized trawler ships have returned to a fishing craft.
Length - 53.4 m
Breadth - 9.0 m
Arms - two 45-mm guns ?21 (or two 76-mm guns ?34),
Machine guns "Maxim"
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