The battlecruiser Gneisenau was the second ship of the Scharnhorst class, classified as battlecruisers. The initial design could be replaced with a 380mm main gun and jumped into a battleship to cope with future battles, but it was not implemented during World War II. Gneisenau was built by the German shipyard Kieldeutsch, launched on December 8, 1936, and entered service on May 21, 1938.
In 1938, the Scharnhorst class was found to have insufficient freeboard in the bow during sea trials, and was docked in the winter of 1938 to refit the Atlantic bow, which took several months. After the outbreak of World War II, two ships of the Scharnhorst class sank the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Glory and two destroyers in the North Sea in 1940, and Gneisenau was covering the damaged Scharnhorst a few days later. On its way back to Germany, the USS was damaged by a torpedo fired by a British submarine. The two ships were then docked for repairs.
In 1941, the two ships of the Scharnhorst class broke into the Atlantic Ocean together to perform a sea-breaking operation. During the two-month operation, the fleet sank a total of 22 merchant ships with a gross tonnage of 115,000 tons, greatly disrupting Allied shipping.
From 26 to 27 February 1942, the Royal Air Force launched an air raid on the Gneisenau, which was being repaired in the port of Kiel. The air attack resulted in the detonation of the ammunition depot in the bow and the entire bow of the Gneisenau. were destroyed by the explosion. Until 1945, the repaired Gneisenau remained in the shipyard and was not put into active duty. Gneisenau was eventually scuttled as a blocking ship on 23 March 1945, but was salvaged by Poland after the war and shredded for scrap
Scale 1:700
Model size Length: 335mm Beam: 43mm
Total number of parts 280+
Metal parts anchor chain
12 sprues, deck and hull
Hull made from multi-directional slide moulds.
Deck wood pattern finely rendered -Contains
Display stand and engraved name plate
Photo-Etched parts included
Paint and glue not included
SKU TRU06736
Brand Trumpeter

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