£6,500
A fine and detailed exhibition style scale model of the Royal Navy 'O' Class destroyer HMS 'Onslow' (G17) by Norman Peters, rigged mast and radio aerials with ladders and navigation lights, open bridge with binnacle and speaking tubes, the deck detailed with anchors and 'D' chains rails and fittings, fore and aft 4.7inch Mark IX guns, torpedo tubes mid-ship, AA Guns and High Altitude armament, pinnacle, life boats and depth charges, the hull finished in grey and black mounted on a cradle within a glass case with brass nameplate, the case 61.8 x 175 x 27cm.. *Notes- HMS 'Onslow' was built by John Brown & Company at their Clydebank yard and was completed on the 8th October 1941. During WWII she served with the Home Fleet taking part in the Arctic Convoys and later in both the Mediterranean and the English Channel, protecting shipping prior to the D-Day landings. In 1948 she was sold to the Pakistan Navy and renamed 'Tippu Sultan' and was eventually scrapped in 1980.
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