Mantua Model 754: Gorch Fock in 1:90 Scale - Historic Training Ship of the Kriegsmarine

Gorch Fock Modeling Kit: Faithful Reproduction of the Kriegsmarine Sailing Ship

Gorch Fock 1:90 with Laser Cut Orders, Metal and Wooden Accessories

Price :

275,00 IVA 22% inc.

Descrizione:

MANTUA MODEL 754 - GORCH FOCK

Scale 1:90

Length: 980 mm

Gorch Fock is It was a three-masted sailing ship with a steel hull, used as a training ship by the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy. He entered in service in 1933. The name derives from the pseudonym of the German writer Johann Kinau, who signed himself Gorch Fock. In 1958 he was one of its sister ships, the Gorch Fock II, entered service. The ship was designed in the wake of a serious accident which occurred to another Kriegsmarine training ship, the Segelschulschiff Niobe, which capsized in the Baltic in 1932 due to a gust of wind with the death of 69 crew members. The ship entered in service carrying out training cruises until the outbreak of the Second World War, it was then used as an office from 1942 in Stralsund and finally scuttled, under fire from tanks from land, to avoid capture by the Soviets. Fished out by them in 1947 at a cost of 800,000 marks, it was restored from 1948 to 1950 and put into service as a training ship for the Soviet Navy with the name of Tovarish (товарищ) and based in Odessa. Passed to Ukraine after 1991 and the dissolution of the USSR, it remained in service until 1993, when it was deactivated due to lack of funds for maintenance.
It was then sold to a private company who wanted to restore it in Newcastle upon Tyne , but due to the considerable costs he gave up to the undertaking and the ship was brought back to Wilhelmshaven where it remained in dock for four years for works and was finally put back into service as a museum ship, renaming it with the name of Gorch Foch I. Consequently, the new training ship was designed with a high level of stability. intrinsic, which included 200 tons of steel ballast capable of righting the ship even following a 90° deflection.

  • The kit includes laser-cut frames
  • rods, cast metal accessories
  • details in wood, hemp, flags, detailed drawings on various plates and assembly instructions.


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Weight : 0.00 Kg

 
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