TAMIYA : REF : TAM78011 : 1:350 : SHIP SERIES : UK : HMS Prince of Wales (Battleship / Cuirassier)
Tamiya REF :
TAM78011
Fabricant
TAMIYA
ISBN : 4950344780112.
Scale :
1:350
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Length: 649 mm. Image shows painted and assembled kit.
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Signaling the End of the Battleship Era
The HMS Prince of Wales took part in a number of important actions early in WWII such as the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck. She later had the misfortune to become one of the first capital ships to be sunk by airpower when she was sunk by Japanese bombers together with HMS Repulse. This assembly kit depicts the ship as she appeared during the fateful Battle of Malaya in December 1941. Differences from the HMS King George V, such as the bridge area and anti-aircraft armament, have been replicated. The kit also comes with parts to depict her Supermarine Walrus seaplane as well as Japanese G3M and G4M bombers (1 each). Comes with a display stand with name plate.
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Plus d'Histoire :
Le HMS Prince of Wales était un cuirassé de classe King George V de la Royal Navy, construit au chantier naval Cammell Laird de Birkenhead. Coulé moins d'un an après sa mise en service, le Prince of Wales eut une longue carrière militaire. Il participa à son premier combat en août 1940, alors qu'il était encore en cale sèche pour son armement, lorsqu'il fut attaqué et endommagé par l'aviation allemande. Au cours de sa brève carrière, il prit part à plusieurs actions clés de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, notamment la bataille du détroit de Danemark en mai 1941, où il toucha à trois reprises le cuirassé allemand Bismarck, contraignant ce dernier à abandonner sa mission de raid et à rentrer au port pour des réparations. Le Prince of Wales escorta ensuite un convoi de Malte en Méditerranée, au cours duquel il fut attaqué par l'aviation italienne. Lors de sa dernière mission, il tenta d'intercepter des convois de troupes japonais au large des côtes de Malaisie, dans le cadre de la Force Z, lorsqu'il fut coulé par l'aviation japonaise le 10 décembre 1941, deux jours après l'attaque de Pearl Harbor.
Elle fut coulée aux côtés de son navire jumeau, le croiseur de bataille HMS Repulse, lors d'une attaque menée par 85 bombardiers Mitsubishi G3M et G4M de l'aviation navale japonaise. Le Prince of Wales et le Repulse devinrent les premiers navires de ligne coulés uniquement par la puissance aérienne en haute mer, préfigurant le rôle décroissant que cette classe de navires allait jouer par la suite dans la guerre navale. L'épave du Prince of Wales repose à l'envers à 68 mètres de profondeur, près de Kuantan, en mer de Chine méridionale.
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More History :
HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that was built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead. Despite being sunk less than a year after she was commissioned, Prince of Wales had an extensive battle history, first seeing action in August 1940 while still being outfitted in her drydock, when she was attacked and damaged by German aircraft. In her brief career, she was involved in several key actions of the Second World War, including the May 1941 Battle of the Denmark Strait, where she scored three hits on the German battleship Bismarck, forcing Bismarck to abandon her raiding mission and head to port for repairs. Prince of Wales later escorted one of the Malta convoys in the Mediterranean, during which she was attacked by Italian aircraft. In her final action, she attempted to intercept Japanese troop convoys off the coast of Malaya as part of Force Z when she was sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
She was sunk alongside her consort, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, in an attack by 85 Mitsubishi G3M and G4M bombers of the Japanese navy air service. Prince of Wales and Repulse became the first capital ships to be sunk solely by air power on the open sea, a harbinger of the diminishing role this class of ships was subsequently to play in naval warfare. The wreck of Prince of Wales lies upside down in 223 feet (68 m) of water, near Kuantan, in the South China Sea.
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Source Wikipedia.