WW1 & Before Royal Navy

A 1/1250 scale model of aircraft carrier HMS Argus in 1918 by Navis Neptun 180N.

One of these ships survives today (HMS Medusa) and is in Portsmouth Dockyard in dazzle camouflage! (The model is in plain grey).

Repeat M-class Destroyers were wartime emergency destroyers ordered in a hurry to ensure that the Royal Navy had sufficient escorts for demands placed on such ships in WW1. This 1/1250 scale waterline model has the short funnels of the standard design issued to dockyards in 1914 which entered service in 1915. This model is by Coastlines Models, CL-DD01 and has three short funnels, see photograph.

A 1/1250 scale resin model of HMS L55, the only L50 class submarine to see service in WW1 by Coastlines Models CL-SS16a.

A 1/1250 scale waterline model of HMS E9 by Coastlines Models CL-SS17a.

This model is cast in resin and fully painted in the camouflage scheme worn by Royal Navy submarines operating in the Baltic Sea during the summer months of the Great War 1914-18.

A 1/1250 scale second-hand model of HMS Nile by Mercator M251. This model is in very good condition, see photograph.

An original Navis model still available from the factory! Good Hope was Craddock's flagship at Coronel and was lost with all hands when she sank after a magazine explosion during the action with von Spee's East Asiatic Squadron.

A 1/1250 scale second-hand model of WW1 minelayer HMS Vanoc by Navis Neptun 161A. The model is in excellent, original condition, see photograph.These modified destroyers were used to lay the U-boat minefields in the Channel and North Sea and some survived to be used again in WW2.

HMS Queen Mary exploding is a 1/1250 scale waterline resin model of the battle cruiser being blown apart by a magazine explosion shortly after being hit by several shells from the German battlecruisers Derfflinger and Seydlitz. This model is by Coastlines Models, CL-EX06.