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AN - Warspite Battleship
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AN - Warspite Battleship Summary
This is the out of the box Pacific 1940 sculpt of the UK Queen Elizabeth class battleship.
HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship built for the Royal Navy and commissioned in 1915. She participated in the Battle of Jutland. During the interwar period the ship was deployed in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea 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.
She was noted for being a"fast battleship" design and used oil as fuel and 15-inch guns for the first time. The design proved to be a success.
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"Bought this battleship along with one from each nation as a going away present for a close friend. The quality was great and they came in a timely fashion. I had questions regarding the order and Greg was quick to respond quickly. Overall great experience. Had time to play with them before my friend took off. Thanks! EDITOR'S NOTE: This customer ordered the following battleships: Yamato, Nagato, Kongo, Nevada, South Dakota, Revenge, Iowa, Bismarck, Littorio, IT - Bismarck, Warspite, Gangut & French Gangut."
Tyle - Sunday, September 20, 2020
