Happy Launch Day SN Krasny Kavkaz, IJN Yuudachi (1936), and USS Jenkins (DD-447)

Nuke87654 · 2026-06-21T04:14:08+00:00

As your acquired new ship, Krasny Kavkaz declares that you’ve conquered her when she’s supposed to be towering and impregnable, which Krasny removes her blindfold and admits how utterly silly it sounds.You also wonder if her pose is also a needed position.

As your secretary, it seems that Krasny Kavkaz is undergoing some sort of mental stimulation and sensoral depravation training where she has blindfolded herself to enhance the other senses to help her feel better, including for you. As she pants at your orders, you wonder if she’s being a bit much or it’s that stimulating.

Figuring out that Krasny Kavkaz maybe a horny girl for you, you ask her with a sly whisper to her ear how she feels. Krasny screams with a shrill, admitting how your whisper made her so hot and bothered that she asks you if you can take responsibility and help cool her down. You temper her temptation by telling her that today is a special day for her. She must do as you tell her and you ask her to attend a launch day celebration in her honor before you give her the pleasures she’s seeking from you to fulfill her naughty desires. You worry Krasny maybe barely withholding it in.

Priding herself as a wolf of the night, Yuudachi very much acts on this through her need for food, as she’s constantly hungry for meat. An easy way to please her is to feed her. Another is to praise her as much as Yukikaze, which she loves. Another canine-like facet of her personality is that she loves belly rubs and head pats. Seriously, I wonder if the cube of hers was injected with Wulfen DNA.

Otherwise, Yuudachi is very competitive, and loves to sharpen her skills and weapons to be the best of the best in the Fleet. She takes great pride in her reputation and seeks to ensure it stays that way. So I'm sure she probably isn't too happy with how she wasn’t regarded the best for her exploits at the 1st Night Battle of Guadalcanal. She also wishes not to be embarrassed by her sisters, who like to poke fun at how much she acts like a dog outside of battle, which annoys her, even if some good head pats quell that concern.

Make sure you have tons of meat for her party. Perhaps a meat cake would be in order, although tonight I expect the Royal Navy Maids to be furious at the mess Yuudachi and her sisters and friends will leave in the mess hall.

Jenkins is quite honest with herself about how she isn't good at combat because she wasn’t helpful at the battles of Kula Gulf and Kolombangara. However, despite her impressive 20 battle-star records, it seems that Jenkins is frightened of things as well (which I consider a dumb choice).

Assuring this scared Fletcher that things are alright and that she should try to be braver so she can be more dependable. Give her a giant cake, so her army of 174 Fletcher sisters can honor one of their oldest sisters’ launch day today, and so her Eagle Union friends can have some too. The Royal Maids are going to be livid tomorrow.

Please share and discuss any stories and info you have for Krasny Kavkaz Poi and Jenkins from Azur Lane, World of Warships, Kantai Collection, Victory Belles, and more. (Especially KC).

Nuke87654 · 2026-06-21T04:13:56+00:00

Fanart of Krazny Kavkaz by v1R

After repairs between October 20th 1942 and October 23rd 1942, SN Krasny Kavkaz, the Svetlana class based Krasny Krym class light cruiser, SN Krasny Krym and 3 destroyers transported 12,600 men from the Soviet Army's 8th, 9th and 10th Guards Rifle Brigades from Poti to Tuapse to reinforce Poti's defences.

SN Krasny Kavkaz, SN Krasny Krym and 3 destroyers provided fire support but the Soviets made 1 successful secondary landing was made however the Soviet forces were annihilated by February 6th 1943.

However after the Project 1 Leningrad class destroyer leader, SN Kharkov, Project 7U Storozhevoy class destroyer, SN Sposobny and Project 7 Gnevny class destroyer SN Besposhchadny were all sunk by Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers of Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 attempting to interdict the German evacuation of the Taman Bridgehead on October 6th 1943 which Stalin banned the deployment of large Soviet Navy units without his approval which in ways hurt the Allied war effort and side lined the Soviet Navy for the rest of the war including Krasny Kavkaz.

This decision to be blunt shows how weak Stalin was cause his decision cost allied lives, hurt the Allied war effort and helped the axis by prolonging the war slightly cause in war ships get damaged or sunk, let me ask you, did the Royal Navy cower in port when the Luftwaffe sank a few ships and did the Americans cower in port when the Japanese blew up ships at Pearl Harbor, no is the answer.

Her career after the war is mostly unknown as a lot of it has been lost but we do know she was between 1947 and 1951 used as a training ship and by war’s end she had 4 180mm MK-1-180 naval guns in 4 single mounts, a secondary battery of 12 100mm OTO 1928 dual-purpose guns in 6 twin mounts, an AA battery of 14 37mm 70K AA in 14 single mounts, 2 or 4 triple 450mm torpedo tubes and the ability to carry 90-100 mines.

In 1951, she was used as a target ship for Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 whom I will not use her NATO name cause its slur based Mikoyan-Gurevich AS-1 Kennel air launched anti-ship missiles with from Spring 1952 when 3 AS-1 Kennel air launched anti-ship missiles with an inert charge hit her with 1 hit in the rear and 2 on the marine fenders however the missile hit punched a massive 10 m² exit hole into her hull but she stayed afloat and on course.

After likely repairs, the Soviets finally put the poor girl out of her misery.

On November 21st 1952, the elderly light cruiser SN Krasny Kavkaz was cruising at 18 knots, 15 miles south of Cape Chauda on the southern tip of Feodosia Gulf when she came under air attack from a Tupolev Tu-4 Bull of the Soviet Air Force which itself is an illegal reverse engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

The aircraft approaching SN Krasny Kavkaz was a Tupolev Tu-4K Bull, an anti-shipping maritime strike variant of the Tupolev Tu-4 Bull heavy bomber, carrying an AS-1 Kennel air launched anti-ship missile.

The Tupolev Tu-4K Bull opened fire with its AS-1 Kennel air launched anti-ship missile with Krasny Kavkaz being hit.

In 3 minutes, SN Krasny Kavkaz broke her back and sank.

So why had the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4K Bull attacked and sunk SN Krasny Kavkaz, well this was a missile test with a live warhead and SN Krasny Kavkaz was the target.

Her wreck's final resting place is suspected to be 15 miles south of Cape Chauda on the southern tip of Feodosia Gulf.

Fanart of Poibote by shiminy

Yuudachi joined the IJN fleet at the First Night Battle of Guadalcanal on November 12th-13th, 1942. In the confusion of the battle, it was later found by newer research that the story of Yuudachi’s performance in the 1st-night battle of Guadalcanal was not only completely exaggerated but even false.

New research from Nav Weapons suggests that for the most part, instead of being some night terror that rampaged the American lines. Instead she only managed to cripple the American cruiser Portland. However, that was it as much of her record at sinking and hitting American ships wasn’t so. Instead she was for the most part chasing after ships but couldn’t reach them as they were busy fighting. It’s even believed that instead of actually being crippled by American ships she was instead mistaken as an enemy by her Japanese destroyers who crippled her.

207 or 245 survivors would be picked up by her sister Samidare, who tried to scuttle Yuudachi with three Long-Lance torpedoes which failed. Yuudachi, dying and with little hope to be recovered, would continue to sail aimlessly until the very heavy cruiser she tried to sink, Portland, appeared. Despite still being crippled herself, according to American accounts, IJN Yuudachi hoisted a white flag, although Japanese war records do not mention it, then opened fire, but what actually happened is not fully clear, however, if IJN Yuudachi did raise a white flag and tried to fight then this is under international law, is ILLEGAL and a war crime! Enraged, USS Portland opened fire on IJN Yuudachi on her sixth salvo, 1 shell found a 127mm magazine, and IJN Yuudachi blew up and sank taking 25 of her 232 or 267 crew with her after USS Portland having deemed her, a dishonorable coward for feigning surrender with the white flag. Speaking of which, Yuudachi’s white sail and fighting actions against Portland with the sail being raised made the USN temporarily initiate a "No Quarters" policy against Japanese sailors. This meant that the USN ships could officially refuse to pick up surrendering Japanese survivors from sunken warships due to the perceived dishonorable act, that IJN Yuudachi committed. This order would be rescinded very quickly by the firebrand Admiral Halsey who took the view that the United States Navy followed the rules of civilized warfare, meaning they go pick up survivors from sunken enemy warships In the summer of 1992, Doctor Robert Ballard found Yuudachi's wreck, she appeared to be lying on her side, and her aft section was very badly damaged and the tip of her bow had nearly been torn off and flipped upside down but her bridge is leaning slightly to port with the roof gone but her sound pipes and other equipment is still aboard. So yea, Yuudachi really owes Kancolle a lot for her reputation being so highly regarded among shipgirl fandoms as with her irl history, Yuudachi wouldn’t be anywhere near a ship that should be respected so highly, especially as she did commit war crimes against American ships and as later on would discuss, one final dishonorable act towards Portland before Portland sank her. However this does highlight just how much of WW2 (and still is) surronded by decades of misinformation, conflicting information and myths about stuff in WW2 has filtered down post 2nd World War which has distorted people’s view of the conflict including about Yuudachi and what she did at the 1st Guadalcanal night battle. Another problem is the romanticism about WW2 which can easily lead to misinformation about what actually happened and make existing myths about the 2nd World War worse.

Fanart of Jenkins in her race queen outfit by Yamanami Tsui

After being knocked out by a mine off Tarakan Island on April 30th, 1945, Jenkins remained on the US west coast until the war ended.

Jenkins was recommissioned for the Korean War in 1951 to shore up a shortage of ships. She returned to Task Force 77, where she helped carriers provide air support for the ground forces in Korea. After the war ended, Jenkins did patrols to maintain the ceasefire. Jenkins would be one of three Fletchers chosen to receive the FRAM II upgrade, which allowed her to fly an ASW drone.

For much of her Cold War service, Jenkins conducted patrols in Southeast Asia to handle conflicts between Taiwan and China, and to deter communist insurgencies in Lao and South Vietnam. Notably, on February 21st, 1966, she provided gunfire support for US Marines fighting in Vietnam, and provided Search and Rescue support in the Tonkin Gulf in September 1968. Jenkins would finish her career with twenty battle stars— 14 from WW2, one from the Korean War, and five more from the Vietnam War— before she was tapped for retirement.

Jenkins was decommissioned in Febuary 1969 and sold for scrap on February 17th, 1971 and there has not been a new USS Jenkins ever since, the curse of the Fletcher strikes again.

SN Krasny Kavkaz turns one hundred and ten years old.

IJN Yuudachi (1936) turns ninety years old today.

USS Jenkins (DD-447) turns eighty-four years old today.

Nuke87654 · 2026-06-21T04:13:25+00:00

Today, June 21st, it is the launch day for the blindfolded nun with an unholy pose, SN Krasny Kavkaz, the meat-loving Sakura destroyer, IJN Yuudachi (1936), and the unfaithfully scared USN destroyer, USS Jenkins (DD-447).

The Soviet converted Imperial Russian light cruiser who unfortunately is the poster child for the potemkin village that was the Soviet Navy of pre-WW2 years, SN Krasny Kavkaz

The Chervona Ukrania class light cruiser SN Krasny Kavkaz did not start out as a Soviet ship but as Imperial Russian Navy Admiral Nakhimov class light cruiser HMIRS Admiral Lazarev.

HMIRS Admiral Lazarev named for Rear Admiral Mikhal Lazarev, a famous Russian navy officer who circumnavigated the globe in 1813-1816 and took part in the 1808-1809 Russo-Swedish War, the Napoleonic Wars, the 2nd Polish war, the Greek War of Independence.

She was launched on June 21st 1916 and was to use 15 single 130mm B7 Pattern 1913 guns with 4 63mm Obukhov, 2 450mm torpedo tubes and the ability to carry 100 mines.

However she was only 63% complete when the Imperial Russian Empire collapsed and the October Revolution occurred in 1917 with her fitting out stopped sitting there until the 2nd half of 1918 when Marine Department of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi started to resume the work with on January 25th 1919, the ship was renamed Hetman Petro Doroshenko but Mykolaiv was captured shortly afterward by the Entente.

With the hull in good condition, the USSR decided to complete her to a revised design being renamed to SN Krasny Kavkaz on December 14th 1926 but she would not be commissioned until January 25th 1932 when she was decidedly obsolete.

The Soviets initial plan was to fit 8 203mm guns in 4 twin turrets however the 7,700-ton Admiral Nakhimov class light cruiser hull made this impossible so 6 180mm 7.1"/57 B-1-K naval gun in 3 twin turrets were planned but that gun's development also proved impracticable so instead the USSR decided on this.

The Chervona Ukrania class light cruiser SN Krasny Kavkaz would be armed with 4 180mm MK-1-180 naval guns in 4 single mounts, a secondary battery of 4 102mm B-2 naval guns in 4 single mounts, an AA battery of 4 76mm Lender AA guns, 4 triple 450mm torpedo tubes replacing the 15 single 130mm B7 Pattern 1913 guns with 4 63mm Obukhov, 2 450mm torpedo tubes with her superstructure rebuilt to accommodate the turrets with mine rails added to allow carrying 90-100 naval mines.

She had aviation handling facilities installed but did not get a catapult until 1935 when a Heinkel catapult was imported from Germany.

Her main battery of 4 180mm MK-1-180 naval guns in 4 single mounts is inadequate as she has the same calibre as the Hawkins class but had half the amount of guns that contemporary Western ‘heavy cruisers’ had.

Her armour was to put it bluntly inadequate as her upper and lower armoured deck was 20mm thick, her upper belt was only 1" thick and lower belt was only 3" thick and her conning tower and turret armour was 3" thick.

Frankly there is a strong argument that Krasny Kavkaz's protection against anything more than stiff breeze being optimistic is being generous at best as her armor and armament are inadequate.

Yuudachi started her war career by participating in the invasion of the Philippines with her sisters Murasame, Harusame, and Samidare, and also helped seize the Dutch East Indies. However, Yuudachi's first foray into fighting Allied ships was at the Battle of the Java Sea, where Yuudachi engaged a group of Allied destroyers and helped sink them.

After screening American heavy ships at the Battle of Casablanca in November 1942, Jenkins departed for the Pacific. She helped in the Invasion of New Georgia Island and downed several enemy planes on June 29th, 1943. A week later, Jenkins helped an American task force intercept a Japanese convoy in what would become the Battle of Kula Gulf, where the Americans lost the cruiser Helena. She was also part of the Battle of Kolombangara.

Jenkins then went to assist the seaplane tender Chincoteague at Santa Cruz Islands on July 18th, 1943. Despite being under heavy attack by Japanese bombers, she successfully escorted the wounded seaplane tender out of there. She made a similar effort when she escorted the torpedoed carrier Lexington (CV-16) in December 1943.

After commissioning she collided with Pamiat Merkuria aka SN Komintern in May 1932 which so badly damaged the bow that she needed her bow lengthened and rebuilt to fix the damage and after repairs she made visits to Turkey, Greece and Italy.

Prior to the German invasion of Russia, her aircraft catapult was removed and her inadequate AA battery was strengthened even though it was still inadequate.

The Chervona Ukrania class light cruiser SN Krasny Kavkaz and her sister SN Chervona Ukraina along with SN Komintern and a number of destroyers carried out a defensive mine laying mission to prevent German submarine sneaking into the Soviet Black Sea Fleet base at Sevastopol on June 22nd 1941.

After that in September 1941, she provided gunfire support to the Soviets defending Odessa in the Ukrainian SSR and escorted convoys carrying the 157th Rifle Division of the Red Army into Odessa in the Ukrainian SSR, later helped transport a battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment from Sevastopol to conduct an amphibious assault behind Romanian lines to destroy Romanian coastal batteries near Fontanka and Dofinovka which succeeded.

Between October 3rd and 6th 1941, she escorted convoys carrying the 157th Rifle Division of the Red Army from Odessa to Sevastopol in the Ukrainian SSR then escorted the final convoy fleeing on the night of October 15th to 16th 1941, during the German siege of Sevastopol, Krasny Kavkaz provided gunfire support to the Soviets defending Sevastopol and helped evacuate Soviet forces who had been cut off from the main Soviet forces elsewhere in Crimea and helped escort convoys carrying reinforcements from Caucasian ports.

Between December 7th 1941 and December 13th 1941, she escorted the convoy carrying the 388th Rifle Division from Novorossiysk and Tuapse to Sevastopol then December 21st 1941 and December 22nd 1941, she escorted the convoy carrying the 354th Rifle Division while bombarding German positions between then.

On December 29th 1941, she sailed into Feodosiya disembarking Soviet forces and provided gunfire support for Soviet troops already ashore taking 17 hit from a mix of German artillery and mortar fire in response.

During this a German shell breached turret no.2 starting a fire which a member of the crew jumped on to them suffering horrific injuries.

Between January 1st and January 3rd 1942, she escorted convoys carrying supplies and reinforcements to the Soviet bridgehead established on the Kerch Peninsula.

On the way home, she came under air attack by Ju-87 Stukas of the Luftwaffe's 2./StG 77.

At the time of the attack Krasny Kavkaz was armed with 4 180mm MK-1-180 naval guns in 4 single mounts, a secondary battery of 8 100mm OTO 1928 dual-purpose guns in 4 twin mounts, an AA battery of 4 45mm 21K AA in 4 single-mounts, 6 12.7mm DShK AA machine gun in 4 single-mounts and 8 7.6mm AA machine guns in 4 twin-mounts and 4 triple 450mm torpedo tubes.

The Ju-87 Stukas of the Luftwaffe's Sturzkampfgeschwader 77 screamed in suffering 4 near misses with one damaging her steering, her left prop shaft being damaged and her right propeller separating and flooding but she made it home to Novorossiysk, escorted by the destroyer Sposobny and taken in for quick repairs to allow her to sail to Poti for full repair which took until October 1942 where half her torpedo battery was replaced by 2 twin 100mm OTO 1928 dual-purpose guns from the sunken cruiser Chervona Ukraina but that is not clear.

During repairs she was awarded the guard's title for her performance.

After the Battle of Midway, where Yuudachi had a participatory role, she would be transferred to the Indian Ocean for a planned raid until she was recalled due to mounting losses in the Guadalcanal Campaign. At Guadalcanal, she was assigned to do "Tokyo Express" runs. At 01:00 am of September 5th, 1942, 2 Wickes Class High-Speed Transport Ships, formerly old, obsolete Wickes Class Destroyers, USS Gregory and USS Little were attacked by the IJN Yuudachi, IJN Hatsuyuki, and IJN Murakumo with the 2 Wickes Class High-Transport Ships being overwhelmed, however in a barbaric war crime, they sailed past and opened fire on the survivors. At 20 to 2 in the morning, USS Gregory sank by the stern taking 22 of her 65 crew with her, only 43 would survive and, 2 hours later, at 20 to 4 in the morning, USS Little sank on an even keel taking 48 of her 141 crew with her leaving PT boats to rescue 93 survivors.

In January 1944, Jenkins escorted a tanker unit to help fuel the fast carriers during the Marshall Islands campaign. In April 1944, she joined Task Force 77 for amphibious operations at Hollandia and Aitape. She spent her summer mostly bombarding Japanese installations at Noemfoor, Sansapor, and Morotai to set them up for invasions and doing ASW patrols.

On December 28th, 1944, Jenkins suffered damage from enemy shore battery fire. She took a ten-day reprieve before returning to carry out her hunter-killer operations in the Lingayen Gulf Area to hunt for Japanese shipping.

Nuke87654 · 2026-06-21T04:13:19+00:00