HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH CLASS  PLANS

Queen Elizabeth-class battleship

1-Large Sheet RC Combat Plans.  

1/144 SCALE 

RC-060

PRICE:  $ 30.00

The five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, which included Barham and Warspite, were long considered "the most perfect example of the naval constructor's art ... put afloat." They were the first battleships to use oil for fuel or mount fifteen-inch guns, and they were the fastest yet built. As flagship of the East Mediterranean Squadron, HMS Queen Elizabeth supported the Gallipoli landings. Recalled to the Grand Fleet in 1915, she was Admiral Sir David Beatty's flagship from 1916 to 1918, and the surrender of the German Fleet was concluded on her decks.

Queen Elizabeth later served in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and underwent extensive alterations between 1937 and 1941. While with the First Battle Squadron in Alexandria, Egypt, she and her sister ship Valiant were damaged by limpet mines planted by three Italian two-man submarines on December 19, 1941, and repairs had to be completed in the United States. From 1943 she was flagship of Admiral Sir James Somerville's Eastern Fleet and supported Allied landings in Indonesia and Burma through the end of the war. She was sold in 1948.

Reference: Halpern, Naval History of World War I. Parkes, British Battleships.

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