| Mooring tenders / lift ships plant and maintain navigation buoys and
undertake salvage tasks. They can also transport air cushion vehicles
and small craft. The Russian Navy's Kashtan class vessels have a
large working area amidships with a heavy-lift, 100-ton-capacity gantry
at the stern, a 12-ton electro-hydraulic crane to starboard, and a 60-ton
boom amidships. The ships have a docking well amidships for stowing
buoys and other gear. Displacement is 4,600 tons full load, with
a length of 334 feet overall and a beam of 65 feet 7 inches. They
have a large block superstructure and ice-breaking prow. These vessels
were built in Rostock (former East Germany).
This is a 1/700 custom-made model, with two salvage submersibles in
the aft docking well. |
