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1/700 Soobrazitelny project 7U destroyer (Combrig)
Specifications:
Displacement 2129 t
Waterline length 112.5 m
Width 10.2 m
Draft 5.05 m
Shaft rating 54000 hp
Speed, max 36.8 knots
Armament: 4 130 mm
2 76 mm
7 37 mm AA machine guns
4 12.7 mm DShK MGs
2 12.7 mm coaxial Colt-Browning MGs
6 torpedo launchers
58 KB mines (or 62 1926 type, or 96 1912 type)
2 BMB-1 mortars
2 lever motion bomb-droppers
Crew 271
The ship was constructed at the 61 Communards shipyard (? 200), Nikolaevsk,
USSR. On 15 October 1936 she was laid down according to project 7, laid
down again according to project 7U on 3 March 1939, launched on 26 August
1939 and finally entered the inventory on 7 June 1941. She took the active
part in the WWII. Her first combat raid was made against Konstantsa. When
Moskva flagship had been blasted out, the Soobrazitelny backed up damaged
Kharkov flagship. The Soobrazitelny escorted transports to Odessa and was
giving fire support to the Soviet troops and repelling numerous air attacks
for three days then. On 23 September participated in the Besposhadny destroyer
rescue mission. Further she convoyed a great deal of transports, carried
out landing operations, shelled enemy lines and repelled air attacks. In
winter 1942 the ship’s hull was severely damaged in a storm. Right after
the overhaul she went on a troop-carrying mission to Sevastopol, got into
a storm again and was damaged in the same way as before. From May 25 the
ship participated in battle for Sevastopol again. On 27 June the Soobrazitelny
escorted damaged Tashkent flagship. On 2 July found herself under massed
air attack of German aviation on Novorossisk. Fortunately, she got only
minor damages. The ship raided Romania shores in the end of November 1942.
She was honored with Guard title on 2 March 1943. During Yalta conference
in February 1945 she patrolled an area to the south from Livadia. The ship
had been undergoing overhaul from 18 December 1945 till 25 August 1947.
She had been modified from 1951 till 1958, renamed to SDK-1 in 1956 and
SS-16 in 1957. She was laid up in 1960, reconstructed into CL-3 target-vessel
on 19 March 1966. The Soobrazitelny was withdrawn from the inventory and
scrapped in the same year.
In 1941-43 she was painted gray. Smokestack cowls were black,
nameplate – bronze, side number – white. The ship was covered with camouflage
in 1943.
More info can be found on the Combrig website at:
www.Modelships.info/Combrig
