AN 1:96 SCALE WATERLINE SHIP MODEL FOR THE K-CLASS DESTROYER...

Hammer

£2,200

AN 1:96 SCALE WATERLINE SHIP MODEL FOR THE K-CLASS DESTROYER H.M.S. KELLY [1938]

the 42in. hull with simulated plating, complete with fittings and armament as appropriate including a manned bridge and signal hoist flying signal, depicted at speed in a moulded painted sea within glazed wooden case with glazed top -- 15½ x 53½ x 12½in. (39.5 x 136 x 31.5cm.)

H.M.S. Kelly K Class Destroyer, pennant F01. Built by Hawthorne Leslie on the Tyne and commissioned in 1939, she initially served with the home fleet. Damaged twice in action, both of which required return trips to the dockyard, she was torpedoed by a German E boat during the Battle of Norway in May 1940, only just managing to limp back to the Tyne, where she was decommissioned for extensive repairs. Recommissioned in December, after working up trails in the channel, she sailed for the Mediterranean, arriving in Malta in April 1941. On the 23rd May 1941, during the Battle of Crete, she was attacked by Stuka dive bombers and sank. During her entire career she was under the command of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who survived the sinking. The incident inspired Noel Coward to write and film In Which We Serve (1942) in which he played Mountbatten's character.