Mercator 1/1250 SS Amerika, a Hamburg-Amerika Liner, 1905 (M413)

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Mercator was originally produced in German and then taken over by Skytrex. Many of the original German models are still available but Skytrex have stopped producing their own castings for the moment so where there is no stock newer models are no longer being made.

Mercator 1/1250 SS Amerika, a Hamburg-Amerika Liner, 1905 (M413)
Designed to compete with Celtic & Cedric of the White Star Line on the North Atlantic, she too was a product of Harland & Wolf and was the largest ship on the Atlantic when she entered service.!

America was interned during WW1 until she was requesitioned as a US Troopship. After the war she served the United States Lines as "America". At the start of WW2 she was laid up and her name was taken by a new ship but she returned to trooping as "Edmund B Alexander". Laid up again after the end of the war, she was finally scrapped in 1958!

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