HMS Warrior 1:100

Billing Boats (B512) HMS Warrior Warship - Model Boat & Fittings
is a scale model warship. Warrior was designed and built in response to
an aggressive French shipbuilding program which saw the introduction of
the first iron-clad warship La Gloire designed by the brilliant naval
architect Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lome. Determined to see off
this challenge to the supremacy of the Royal Navy the then First Lord of
the Admiralty, Sir John Somerset Pakington, determined to build a ship
so superior in terms of quality, speed, size, armament and armour that
it would be inconceivable to France that she could take Britain on in a
sea battle. When commissioned by Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland
Leopold Pedro Cochrane, on August 1st 1861, Warrior was the largest
warship in the world, at 9,210 tons displacement she was fully 60%
larger than La Gloire. The ship underwent minor modifications after a
sea trial.

In June 1862, she started active service in the Channel Squadron,
patrolling coastal waters and sailing to Lisbon and Gibraltar. Having
introduced a revolution in naval architecture, by 1864 Warrior was
superseded by faster designs, with bigger guns and thicker armour. By
1871 she was no longer regarded as the crack ship she had once been, and
her roles were downgraded to Coastguard and reserve services. In May of
1883 her fore and main masts were found to be rotten, and not
considered worth the cost of repair, Warrior was placed in the reserve,
eventually converted to a floating school for the Navy and re-named
Vernon III in 1904. Put up for sale as scrap in 1924, no buyer could be
found, and so, in March 1929 she left Portsmouth to be taken to Pembroke
Dock and converted into a floating oil pontoon, re-named again as Oil
Fuel Hulk C77. By 1978, she was the only surviving example of the 'Black
Battlefleet' - the 45 iron hulls built for the Royal Navy between 1861
and 1877.

Kit Contents:

Plan with detailed building instructions German, English, French,
Danish, Italian and Dutch, wooden hull, decks from wood, plastic and
wooden parts to finish the model, stern tube with shaft and propeller.

Fittings Contents:

All fittings included (e.g. position lights, anchors, life-belt, etc.)

Specification:

Length 1470 mm.
Width 390 mm.
Height 675 mm.
Scale 1:100.