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1/700 Carrier Frunze (Poltava) Upper Deck
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Frunze was laid down in June 1909 as the battleship Poltava, the second of four Sevastopol class battleships. Commissioned in late 1914, she did not play any active part in the Great War, remaining as a fleet in being to prevent the Germans from entering the Gulf of Finland. Ran aground in 1916, suffered little damage; her crew participated in the February Revolution of 1917, and the following year the battleship helped evacuate Helsingfors, before being put in reserve in October due to manpower shortages. There she waited in a state of disrepair, being cannibalized for spare parts, and ravaged by a boiler fire in 1919.
However in 1924, plans were drawn up to expand the newly-born Soviet Navy. Both her and the incomplete battlecruiser Izmail were considered for conversion into carriers for the Black Sea Fleet, with very similar designs - something akin to the pair Akagi-Kaga, also redesigned to operate similarly. This project was discarded due to limited funds and the idea to restore the battleship in her original configuration carried out, but again funds ran out two years later with the work around 46% complete. She was renamed Frunze the previous January, and further ideas for reconstructing her evaluated, but none came to fruition. From 1934 onwards, she was slowly stripped of anything useful, including her gun turrets (to be placed on land reinforcing existing strongholds), and by 1940 was finally discarded. Her hull, transferred to Kronshtadt, was used as a base for small combatants during the siege of Leningrad, until 1944, when it was refloated and scrapped in 1949.
Two of her gun turrets remained in service as coastal defence batteries until 1997, which along with the other two in Vladivostok, make Poltava 'the longest battleship in the world', as the Russians sometimes say.
The carrier project considered for the by now Frunze is rather obscure. The size of the former battleship's hull remained the same, although her flight deck extended a little over the bow with a small enclosure (akin but not as extensive as later hurricane bows), and the stern. Speed and armour were unchanged as far as is known. Eight of her original secondary battery guns were retained, the amidships casemates being deleted, plus six other guns in turrets which have never been identified beyond question, but can be hypothesized to be 120 mm (with restricted arcs of fire). Plane capacity was estimated to be around 50 aircraft in total (probably including spares).
However in 1924, plans were drawn up to expand the newly-born Soviet Navy. Both her and the incomplete battlecruiser Izmail were considered for conversion into carriers for the Black Sea Fleet, with very similar designs - something akin to the pair Akagi-Kaga, also redesigned to operate similarly. This project was discarded due to limited funds and the idea to restore the battleship in her original configuration carried out, but again funds ran out two years later with the work around 46% complete. She was renamed Frunze the previous January, and further ideas for reconstructing her evaluated, but none came to fruition. From 1934 onwards, she was slowly stripped of anything useful, including her gun turrets (to be placed on land reinforcing existing strongholds), and by 1940 was finally discarded. Her hull, transferred to Kronshtadt, was used as a base for small combatants during the siege of Leningrad, until 1944, when it was refloated and scrapped in 1949.
Two of her gun turrets remained in service as coastal defence batteries until 1997, which along with the other two in Vladivostok, make Poltava 'the longest battleship in the world', as the Russians sometimes say.
The carrier project considered for the by now Frunze is rather obscure. The size of the former battleship's hull remained the same, although her flight deck extended a little over the bow with a small enclosure (akin but not as extensive as later hurricane bows), and the stern. Speed and armour were unchanged as far as is known. Eight of her original secondary battery guns were retained, the amidships casemates being deleted, plus six other guns in turrets which have never been identified beyond question, but can be hypothesized to be 120 mm (with restricted arcs of fire). Plane capacity was estimated to be around 50 aircraft in total (probably including spares).
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