Hobbyboss 86505 "French Navy Pe Dreadnought Battleship Condorcet Plastic Model Kit, 1:350 Scale

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 Antiviral 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 (Krieg marine). She was badly damaged by Allied bombing in 1944, but was later raised and scrapped by 1949. Length: 414 mm, Beam: 73.7mm. Contains hull split into two parts, Contains display stand and engraved name plate, Photo-Etched parts included. Safety Warning Contains small parts Box Contains 1 x plastic model kit