Mercator 1/1250 M548 Empress of Britain, Pre-WW2 Canadian Pacific Liner
Empress of Britain is a 1/1250 scale secondhand waterline metal model in very good condition, see photograph. The hull is marked underneath, "Made in West Germany" but some of the early models produced by Skytrex in the UK were also so marked, so this is not definitive. The masts and king posts are of the earlier type of injection moulded plastic but some parts have been replaced by metal. The box is a Sktrex box and the funnels appear to have been re-painted in a lighter shade of yellow, The photo is of this model.
The model represents the liner which was flagship of the Canadian Pacific Line and she was bombed and torpedoed by the Germans and finally sunk by the Royal Navy becoming the largest Allied ship to be lost to enemy action in WW2.