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Gollevainen
Post subject: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 11th, 2016, 3:46 pm
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Back in last summer I took short trip to St. Petersburg where one of my goals was to visit the Central Naval Museum. One of the thing I wanted to find out was a glimbse of model of a ship that was seen in the backround in photos of other models in the museum but never of the actual model itself. The model was rather interesting to me as it was clearly not something that existed in real life. Well I got there and found the model and it was labeled as a "Squardon minesweeper of the 1970's". That was rather odd description as the model clearly showed a ship dating more to late 50's or early 60's.

Back when I posted the images of the ship to internet, it was soon identified as a project 259 squardon minesweeper, a known paper-neverwhere. Thus with dimensions now available, I decided to draw it to the never-where section as well. So here it is as represented in the museum and as it would originally planned with the Zif-31 guns.

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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 11th, 2016, 5:10 pm
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Very interesting design, boss, well done.

That funnel arrangement seem to hide steam turbines..

Could you post her dimensions/specs please?


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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 11th, 2016, 5:27 pm
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Its actually diesels, 3 in specifics.

The displacement is 1200t full load, dimensions are 88.2m x 9.8m x 2.9m

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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 11th, 2016, 6:06 pm
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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 11th, 2016, 8:56 pm
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Do you mean "Squadron" by any chance? "Squardon" I've never heard of... (Otherwise a very fine drawing indeed!)

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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 12th, 2016, 7:52 am
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Very nice work, a nice looking little boat.
I assume the 3 diesels are in separated engine rooms from the funnel placement?

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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 12th, 2016, 8:34 am
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[quote]Very nice work, a nice looking little boat.
I assume the 3 diesels are in separated engine rooms from the funnel placement?[/quote

Yeah I would assume so given the size of the funnels (the forward one is smaller than the other).

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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 12th, 2016, 8:57 pm
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Looks very nice, good to see more obscure designs coming up.
From the description and the drawing, I assume that it would have been a high-speed, long-range sea-going minesweeper for the escort of surface groups?

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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 13th, 2016, 9:38 pm
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Great addition!


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Post subject: Re: Project 259 Squardon minesweeperPosted: April 16th, 2016, 5:29 am
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That is indeed an attractive looking boat, I'd assume that the divided(?) powerplant was to assist in damage limitation in action?


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