areas, to gain crews of people who do not have a good maritime training. The main disadvantage of small rowing sailing vessels was the lack of shelter; the result is that people constantly were on the upper deck, not having shelter at night and in bad weather.

During the Swedish war 1788-1790 years, Russia, which had captured the enemy’s gunboats and jolles, quickly appreciated the advantages of the new type vessels and started to build them in the next year. By the beginning of the summer of 1789 the Baltic fleet managed to put 63 gunboats built in Russia, descended from slipways of Volkhov, Galley, Revel, Villmanstrand and Fredrikshamn shipyards.

In general, the appearance of Russian gunboats and jolles in the Baltic, tragically for the Swedes, who invented them, had a decisive preponderance in benefit of Russia, which affected the results of the Swedish war of 1808-1809. Small vessels are fully bound in the maneuver the joint Anglo-Swedish fleet in the Finnish skerries and that allowed the Russian land-based armies to freely advance along the coast.

 

The built model has the following dimensions:

       Length: 215 mm

       Width: 56 mm

Height: 120 mm

Scale: 1:72

 

This wooden kit features:

-        A special hull design, that compensates the materials deformation

-        The marked bevel on frames

-        A single-layered pre-cut planking

-        All details are laser cut

-        Detailed text, photo instruction and drawings

-        Patterns and cloth for sail sewing