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ZVEZDA 1/350 VARYAG IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY CRUISER Z9014

ZVEZDA

VARYAG
IMPERIAL RUSSIAN CRUISER
PRE - WWI WARSHIP

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1/350 Scale

Varyag was an Imperial Russian protected cruiser. The Imperial Admiralty contracted William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to build the ship, and her keel was laid in October 1898. Launched on October 31, 1899, under Captain Vladimir Behr, she was commissioned into the Imperial Russian Navy on January 2, 1901.
Cruiser Varyag in the Golden Horn Bay of Vladivostok, 1903. During her construction, an assistant physician, Leo Alexandroff, left the ship's advance party on April 20, 1899, and applied for U.S. citizenship. He was arrested for desertion. His case reached the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in Tucker v. Alexandroff that the ship, though not accepted for service in the Imperial Russian Navy, was a warship under the terms of the 1832 treaty between Russia and the United States.
During the Battle of Chemulpo Bay at the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Varyag (under the command of Captain of the First Rank Vsevolod Rudnev) accepted a badly unequal battle with the Japanese squadron of Admiral Uriu (one armoured cruiser, five protected cruisers and eight destroyers) in an heroic attempt to break out from Chemulpo (Incheon) harbour February 9, 1904. Chemulpo was in neutral Korean waters, so Admiral Uriu gave the Russian ships in harbour a written ultimatum to sail by 12:00 noon or be attacked in the harbour itself. Captain Rudnev sortied, accompanied by the gunboat Koreets; having lost 31 men dead, 191 injured (out of 570) and outgunned, both ships returned to harbour by 1:00 p.m., the crew decided not to surrender, but to scuttle the ship. The crew was saved by transferring them to the British cruiser HMS Talbot, the French cruiser Pascal, and the Italian cruiser Elba; the captain of American cruiser Vicksburg declined doing so as a violation of US neutrality.
During World War I, Russia and Japan were allies and several ships were transferred by the Japanese to the Russians. She was returned on April 5, 1916 and renamed Varyag. She was sent to Great Britain for an overhaul, and was due to re-enter service with the Arctic squadron of the Russian Navy. However, following the Russian Revolution on November 7, 1917 she was seized by the British and eventually sold to Germany in 1920 for scrap. That same year, while under tow in the Firth of Clyde, she ran aground, and was scrapped there. She finally sank in 1925 and was never recovered.

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