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Fighting the U-boats
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New Wood Decks & Brass Parts
Great kit 36" long can be R/C'd or a
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List Price $250.00
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Kit#DC402 or PT117
New Items added to the
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Including photo-etched parts
- Including metal tubes
- Including self-adhesive wooden deck
- Metal anchor chain
- Detailed hull
- Detailed screw
- Detailed deck superstructures
- Cowls
- Movable Lewis MG on mount
- Deck equipment with stowage lockers
- MG emplacements
- Search lights
- Cable winches
- Bridge with splinter-proof walls
- Detailed radar tower
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- Movable 102 mm gun with protective wall
- Separate grenades
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- Lifeboats and rubber dinghies
- Depth charge release systems
- Separate depth charges
- Display stand
The Flower Class Corvette HMCS Snowberry
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This model was built by Bob Pearson.
1/400 resin kit Picture Perfect.
Great
website dealing with the Flower Class!
These are great books to read and look at while you build.
BK36 - $39.95
The Flower Class
Displacement | 940 tons (1170 full complement) |
Complement | 47 |
Length | 62.48m (ca 190 feet) |
Armament | 1 x 102mm gun 1 2 pounder gun 1 Hedgehog 2 Depth charge throwers 2 depth charge chutes (30 charges) |
Max speed | 16 knots |
Power | 2,750 shp |
Machinery | 4-cylinder triple expansion engine |
Modified Flower Class
Displacement | 980 tons (1350 full complement) |
Complement | 109 |
Length | 63.47m (ca 193 feet) |
Armament | 1 x 102mm gun 1 2 pounder gun 1 Hedgehog 4 Depth charge throwers 2 depth charge chutes (30 charges) |
Max speed | 16 knots |
Power | 2,750 shp |
Machinery | 4-cylinder triple expansion engine |
Great Britain's shipbuilding
program of 1939 and 1940 required a convoy escort vessel which was capable of being built
quickly, of mounting the then available anti-submarine equipment, of surviving the heavy
seas around the British Isles, and of matching U-boat speeds. The design adopted was based
upon a whale-catcher built in Middlesbrough. 145 Their short length and shallow draught made them uncomfortable ships to live in; even when they were modified, after the fall of France, to enable them to counter the extended range of the German 'Wolf-packs'. A fortnight of constant rolling and pitching on transatlantic convoy duty tended to exhaust all who sailed in them. The ratings in the crews were mostly reservists with only a few key positions, such as Cox'n, Chief Bos'n's mate, Gunlayer, Chief Engineer etc., being filled by regular or recalled personnel; the officers were reservists, almost without exception, with the Captain usually ex-merchant navy. Service aboard was monotonous and debilitating for long periods, either because of the need for constant vigilance in the face of those twin dangers, the sea and the enemy, or because of, in the North Atlantic at least, the cold. When action came, it could be prolonged and brutal with the sight and aftermath of the sinking of freighters or of other warships. The torpedoing of a corvette itself would be especially dramatic: its few compartments below the water line would cause it to sink in seconds, with few survivors. Over 20 corvettes fell victim to torpedo or mine during the War. Normally sleeping conditions on board for officers and petty officers were relatively reasonable, but for the seamen in a crowded, stuffy and water laden forecastle they were a great hardship. The inability to store perishable food for more than 2 or 3 days led to a boring repetition of corned-beef and powdered potato for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Since most of the crewmen were young, persistent sea-sickness was the principal health-hazard. Home-leave was possible only when the ship was refitting or cleaning boilers, but local leave was liberally granted on both sides of the ocean at the end of convoy duties. After the Normandy landings in 1944, the Flower-class gave way in the Atlantic to the newer and faster frigates and Castle-class corvettes. Canadian Navy Flower class corvettes (80)
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