~ Scratch Built Mounted Model Of 3 Phases Of The Battleship HMS Warspite ~
Here we have three scratch built, one-off, mounted models of HMS Warspite showing her configuration at 3 stages of her career in 1917, 1927 and 1944.
The models are of wooden construction and are highly detailed.
The three models are mounted on a tiered wooden stand.
~ Dimensions ~
Each model has a length of 43 cm (17 inches).
The mounted set measures 47 cm (18 ½ inches) wide, by 23 cm (9 inches) deep, with a height of 15 cm (6 inches).
It weighs 1.44 Kg.
~ Condition ~
The models are in a great condition with no damage.
The stand is in good order.
~ HMS Warspite ~
HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s.
She was assigned to the Grand Fleet and during the First World War, participated in the Battle of Jutland as well as the inconclusive Action of 19 August (1916).
Her service during the war otherwise, generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea.
During the interwar period the ship was deployed in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, often serving as flagship, and was thoroughly modernised in the mid-1930s.
During the Second World War, Warspite was involved in the Norwegian Campaign in early 1940 and was transferred to the Mediterranean later that year where the ship participated in fleet actions against the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) while also escorting convoys and bombarding Italian troops ashore.
She was damaged by German aircraft during the Battle of Crete in mid-1941 and required six months of repairs in the United States. They were completed after the start of the Pacific War in December and the ship sailed across the Pacific to join the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean in early 1942.
Warspite returned home in mid-1943 to conduct naval gunfire support as part of Force H during the Italian campaign. She was badly damaged by German radio-controlled glider bombs during the landings at Salerno and spent most of the next year under repair.
The ship bombarded German positions during the Normandy landings and on Walcheren Island in 1944, despite not being fully repaired. These actions earned her the most battle honours ever awarded to an individual ship in the Royal Navy. For this and other reasons, Warspite gained the nickname the "Grand Old Lady" after a comment made by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham in 1943 while she was his flagship.
Decommissioned in 1945, Warspite ran aground under tow in 1947 on rocks near Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and was eventually broken up nearby.
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