Mountford 1/1250 Admiral Graf Spee German Pocket Battleship Kit WW2 (MM102)

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Well detailed diecast metal & plastic kits with simple assembly and painting required to produce waterline models. Glue (use two part epoxy resin) and paints required separately.

Mountford 1/1250 Admiral Graf Spee German Pocket Battleship Kit WW2 (MM102)
Prowling the South Atlantic early in WW2, and having sunk 11 British merchant ships, the pocket battleship Graf Spee was spotted by the cruisers Ajax, Exeter and Achilles. Damaged she sought refuge for repairs in a neutral port in Uruguay. Refused more time and facing what they believed were superior forces the crew scuttled the ship at the mouth of the River Plate giving the British their first great victory of WW2

The armoured warship Admiral Graf Spee went into service on 6th January 1936, as the new flagship of the German navy. On 13th December 1939, at the mouth of the River Plate, the Graf Spee ran into a British cruiser squadron. Graf Spee's 6 x 11" guns were far superior to the British force's and she was able to break out of the battle that followed to her own advantage, but had to make a run for the neutral harbour of Montevideo in order to repair the damage. On 17th December, after makeshift repairs, Captain Langsdorff had to leave the harbour. He subsequently scuttled his own ship. Public attention was recently focussed on the wreck of the Admiral Graf Spee again, when it became known that Uruguayan contractors wished to raise parts of the ship to form the nucleus of a museum.

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