Shipbucket

Here's everyones' favourite art-deco little warship; the Tashkent. Designed and built in Italy for the Soviet Navy. The plan was for the rest of the class, that being three more ships were to be built in Soviet yards, but the Italian hull framing was incompatible with Soviet building practices, so no more ships were built. She was nicknamed the "blue cutie", and/or "blue cruiser" due to the Italian blue color she was delivered in.

Tashkent during her trials:


Tashkent as delivered to the Soviet navy with her temporary armament of 6x45mm AA guns and 3x130mm main guns:


Tashkent as refitted in 1941 with her intended armament of 6x130mm guns and 6x37mm AA guns:


Tashkent as refitted after repairs from being bombed in august 1941. In this refit a 76mm twin A mount meant for the destroyer Ognevoy was mounted on the stern.


The Baku is colored in the standard Soviet blue-grey, whereas the Tashkent is in flint grey since she was a Black Sea ship. Since the ships were meant to be dispersed throughout the four fleets of the USSR, the other ships would have been blue, and not grey.
I'm posting the only other named ship of the four here; the Baku so I don't have to make a thread just for her in the never-built section:

Awesome work!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

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Looks good.
Minor nit-pick - way You wrote Tashkent on the ships - "sh" should look like "lying E" (very square-ish with vertical lines of equal lenght), not like "W", and "n" should look like latin "H", not like "N" (in Russian alphabet there is a letter that looks like horizontally-inverted "N", but it's actually "I").

This one has been lying around for a bit without being poste, but it's the august 1941 refit of the Tashkent where a 76mm twin mount was added on the stern of the ship. This mount was originally intended for the Ognevoy that was being built at the time.



I also changed the template of the previous 1941 drawing to reflect it being a february 1941 refit.

Very nice work!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB