Hobby Boss 86505 French Navy Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Condorcet 1:350

 Condorcet was one of the six Danton class semi-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy in the mid-1900s. When World War I began in August 1914, she unsuccessfully searched for the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau in the Western and Central Mediterranean. Later that month, the ship participated in the Battle of Antivari in the Adriatic Sea and helped to sink an Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser. Condorcet spent most of the rest of the war blockading the Straits of Otranto and the Dardanelles to keep German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish warships bottled up.

       After the war, she was modernized in 1923–25 and subsequently became a training ship. In 1931, the ship was converted into an accommodation hulk. Condorcet was captured intact when the Germans occupied Vichy France in November 1942 and was used by them to house sailors of their navy (Kriegsmarine). She was badly damaged by Allied bombing in 1944, but was later raised and scrapped by 1949.

Item No    86505

Item Name    French Navy Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Condorcet

Bar Code    6939319265050

Scale    1:350

Item Type    Plastic Model Warship Kit

Model Dimension    Length: 414mm   Beam: 73.7mm  

Total Plastic Parts    470+

Total Sprues    13 sprues , deck and stand

Metal Parts    anchor chain

Photo Etched Parts    3 pcs

More Features    

-hull split into two parts

-Contains display stand and engraved name plate

-Photo-Etched parts included