Albatros 1/1250 Alk327A Atlantic Causeway, Falklands as aircraft depot ship, 1982
Albatros 1/1250 scale die-cast metal, waterline, assembled, painted and finished model of Atlantic Causeway, the container ship used as an aircraft repair ship during the Falklands war. The box includes two Argentinian Pucara aircraft.
Atlantic Causeway was a sister ship to Atlantic Conveyor and used to transport aircraft for the South Atlantic Task Force but, unlike Atlantic Conveyor, survived the conflict and eventually returned to the UK with two captured Pucara ground attack aircraft on deck, as modelled here, and made a fine sight proceeding from Plymouth sound into the Tamar.