more | Albatros 1/1250 RMS Lancastria, Cunard Line Troopship (1940) (Alk123A)
Excellent model of Cunard's famous Lancastria that retained her red funnel when grey camouflage paint was applied as her troop ship duties commenced at the beginning of WW2. This is the version that we have here. The funnel did receive a thin coat of grey immediately before she was sunk off St Nazaire! She had already assisted in the evacuation of British troops from Norway. more.. | |
more | Albatros 1/1250 Strathaird, British Troopship (1940) (Alk125)
One of the famous P&O "white sisters", Strathaird served as a troopship during WW2.more.. | |
more | Albatros 1/1250 HMS Carnarvon Castle (Alk121)
Another excellent model from Albatros of a famous ship with a very interesting history.more.. | |
more | Albatros 1/1250 Queen of Bermuda, a WW2 Armed Merchant Cruiser (Alk122)
Excellent model of the three funnelled vessel that was converted to an armed merchant cruiser and then to a troop ship, surving the war to be converted back to a passsenger liner.more.. | |
more | Albatros 1/1250 RMS Lancastria, Cunard Line Troopship (1940) (Alk123)
Launched on the Clyde, Scotland, in 1920 as the Tyrrhenia for the Anchor Line, a subsidiary of Cunard, the 16,243 ton, 578 foot (176 m) liner could carry 2,200 passengers in three classes and was built by William Beardmore and Company of Glasgow, Scotland. She made her maiden voyage on 19 June 1922. Renamed Lancastria in 1924, after American passengers complained that they could not properly pronounce Tyrrhenia, she sailed scheduled routes from Liverpool to New York until 1932, and was then used as a cruise ship in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she carried cargo before being requisitioned in April 1940 as a troopship, becoming the HMT Lancastria. She was first used to assist in the evacuation of troops from Norway.more.. | |
more | Albatros 1/1250 HMCS Prince Henry, a WW2 Armed Merchant Cruiser (Alk126)
The Canadian Government requisitioned three large ferries to serve as AMCs early in WW2, Prince Henry (shown here as converted), Prince Robert (which has been modelled as an AA vessel later in the war by Argonaut but is no longer available) and Prince David. They were used to escort Atlantic convoys until the threat of Merchant Raiders dimimished.more.. | |
more | Albatros 1/1250 HMS Alcantara, Armed Merchant Cruiser, 1940 (Alk127)
New in 2008! Modelled in 1940 onwards form. It was in this condition that she had the worst of an encounter with the raider, Thor.
Although badly damaged by Thor, Alcantara survived and was used as an accommodation ship in South Africa. She was repaired and returned to civilian duties after the war but her fore funnel was not restored!
Does history repeat itself? Alcantara was not the first armed merchant cruiser to carry the name. In WW1 The AMC Alcantera engaged the German blockade runner Grief in an epic battle in which each ship mortally wounded the other. Both sank with considerable loss of life.
The problem for both sides was that merchant ships taken up for service were not designed to absorb punishment from gunfire, so could quickly be disabled and sunk. Getting in the first shot was paramount. more.. | |
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info | Albatros 1/1250 HMS Voltaire, Armed Merchant Cruiser, 1939 (Alk128)
New for 2009! Modelled in 19439 onwards form. Voltaire met her end in 1941 in an encounter with the German raider Thor, which out ranged and outgunned her. The size of the merchant cruisers worked against them, as with little armour, it made them easy targets.
Price and delivery to be advised! | |
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