TNS Valmistaja
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_starboard_bow_view.jpg) TNS Valmistaja Underway in the North Lutentian in 1938
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Kingdom of Talvistova |
| Operators: | Royal Talvistovan Navy |
| Preceded by: | N/A |
| Succeeded by: | N/A |
| Built: | 1929-1935 |
| In commission: | 1936-1950 |
| Planned: | 1 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Active: | 0 |
| Retired: | 1 |
| Preserved: | 1 |
| Talvistova | |
| Name: | Valmistaja |
| Namesake: | Vuori God of Rain |
| Laid down: | 15 September 1929 |
| Launched: | 8 December 1935 |
| Commissioned: | 2 January 1936 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 December 1950 |
| Struck: | 17 October 1952 |
| Status: | Currently preserved as a museum ship moored at the Royal Naval Institute in Ljustad. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Displacement: | 40,000 tons |
| Length: | 850 ft (260 m) |
| Beam: | 100 ft (30 m) |
| Draft: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | 8 superheat boilers |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,750 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 3x Floatplanes |
| Aviation facilities: | 1 x catapult |
The TNS Valmistaja was the first and only member of the Valmistaja-class of Battleships built for the Second Great War. The ships where designed to act as force projection over the Gulf of paajarvi and North Lutentian Ocean, and was meant to act as a counterpart to the Englean Battleships of the same time period, and it would ultimately prove to be an icon of the Second Great War due to it's crew's dogged determination to keep it in action, impressive firepower, and it's imposing figure being seen as a comfort to uneasy Talvistovan Sailors in the early stages of the war.
The Valmistaja has persisted into the 21st century as a cultural Icon of her home country, with countless monuments dotting the country, as well as many businesses donning one of the ship's many nicknames, including 'Valiant Val', 'Big V', or the naval community's preferred name of 'Vikki the Vicious Virgin', a nickname she earned from her initial combat involvement at the straight of good faith.
Background
Due to rising global tensions that would eventually result in the breakout of the second great war, the Ministry of War found itself of a flagship to use for the sake of recruitment and enforcing talvistovan superiority over the nearby waterways. This need would eventually be filled when a contract was reached with shipbuilding powerhouse Donbosk Iron Works to construct the Kingdom of Talvistova's first - and to this day - only Battleship, the TNS Valmistaja.
