£380
A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED 1:192 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE 'V' CLASS DESTROYER H.M.S. VIDETTE [1918]
with 18in. laminated and carved hull plated in card, detailed deck fittings as appropriate and including open bridge, masts with signal lanyards with flags, radio aeriels, funnels with pipework and wire tops, fitted boats in davits, searchlights and other fine detailing, main and secondary armaments complete with torpedo tubes, depicted underway on a calm sea display base, with brass plate, contained within perspex case -- 7 x 21½ x 8in. (18 x 55 x 20.5cm.)
Built by Alexander Stephens & Sons in 1918, Vidette was one of twenty-five V-Class destroyers forming part of the Emergency War Programme. Sent to Gibraltar for the first three years of WW2 for routine escort duties, in 1942 she was re-fitted as a Long Range Escort and assigned to the Western Approaches Command for North Atlantic operations. It was here she came into her own under Cmdr (later Vice Admiral) Peter Gretton (1912-1992) and by the Wars end had sunk seven U-Boats. She was scrapped in 1947.
Fine overall condition.
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