CM Models 1/1250 CMP-1223 HMS Laurentic in grey overall as an AMC during WW1

HMS Laurentic was built as a transatlantic liner running between Liverpool and Canada from 1909 until the outbreak of WW1 until September 1914 when she became a troopship bringing Canadian and Newfoundland troops tojoin the war in Europe. Because she was one of the fastest liners she was taken over by the Royal Navy becoming an AMC in Novenmber 1914 and she was sent to Gibraltar, West and South Africa before heading for India and the Far East in 1915.
In July 1916, she was recalled to Gibraltar and transported gold from South Africa and Britain to Canada in exchange for war supplies. Troops were transported to the UK from Canada and the ship was refitted in the UK. It was probably during this refit that she had shields fitted to some of the 6in guns and was re-painted from dark grey hull and light grey upperworks to light grey overall as on the model.
In February 1917, she loaded gold and set sail for Canada but off Lough Swilly she stuck two mines laid by a German submarine. The damage was on the port side and the ship lost all power and capsaized capsized to port after all on board who had survived the explosions had got away in the lifeboats. Shockingly, most of the people who made it into the lifeboats died of exposure before the lifeboats were located byrescue ships.
Several attempts were made to salvage the gold over the next 20 or so years and the wreck was badly damaged in the attempts but most of the gold bars were everntually recovered.