French Navy Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Voltaire
HB86504
HOBBY BOSS
1:350
Plastic kit to build the French Navy Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Voltaire
- Scale 1:350
- Dimensions LxW (built): 414 x 73.7 mm
- 470+ pieces
- split fuselage halves
- Metal anchor chain, model stand and engraved name tag included
- Photo-etched parts included
- unbuilt/unpainted
- Paint and glue not included
Danton class battleships 6 were built. Voltaire was the 6th ship. Its Standard Displacement: 18,318 tons full load displacement of 19,763 tons. Speed: 19. Weapons and equipment 4x 12 inches (305mm) artillery, 12x 9.4 inches (240mm) artillery, 16x 75mm guns.
Voltaire launch on January 16, 1909. The start of the First World War, she was involved in the Western Mediterranean, the German battle cruiser Ge this number and the light cruiser Breslau number that unsuccessful search operations and convoy operations. The rest of the time in the Otranto Straitsand the Dardanelles the the war blockade to prevent the German, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Turkish warships into the Mediterranean. Voltaire was hit by two torpedoes fired by the German submarine U48 in October 1918, but no serious damage. After the war, the ship was converted in 1923-1925 modernization, and later became a training ship. After she retired in 1935, sold as scrap metal, collapsed in 1939.
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