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HMS Prince of Wales WWII - Lenght 18cm - PAINTED

HMS Prince of Wales WWII - Lenght 18cm - PAINTED

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The battleship Prince of Wales was the second ship of the King George V class. In May 1941, she was sent to the Atlantic together with the HMS Hood to intercept the Bismarck, and participated in the brief engagement at the Denmark Strait that resulted in the sinking of the famous British battlecruiser. Two months later, the battleship transported Prime Minister Churchill across the Atlantic to Newfoundland to meet with President Roosevelt. In October, the Prince of Wales was sent to Singapore to act as a deterrent against a possible Japanese aggression. On 10 December, she was bombed, torpedoed and sunk together with the battlecruiser Repulse off the coast of British Malaya by land-based Japanese planes operating from Indo-China some 400 miles away. The Prince of Wales was the first and only modern British battleship sunk in World War II, and the final action marked the first time in which capital ships were sunk exclusively by an air attack while at sea.



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