Imperial Russian
ship " Twelve apostles "
1841
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The sailing military linear
ships were largest sailing-ships in the world. In 1841 with slips in Nikolaev
the linear ship " Twelve apostles " constructed by the engineer
Chernyavsky S.I. It was the ship by displacement 5500 т, length 63 м, width 18
m. On it 132 cannons were established. The large area of sails allowed it to
develop speed up to 10 units. The ship was very beautiful. Not without reason
known artist I.K. Ayvazovsky in eight pictures has represented " Twelve
apostles " on
The model is executed in scale 1:60.
Length 64” (1600 mm), width 25” (360 mm),
height 58” (1450 mm).