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1/350 HMS Agincourt (Mobile Base) Stern Waterline
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HMS Agincourt was ordered as the Brazilian battleship Rio de Janeiro in June 1911, with the country locked in an arms race against the other two most powerful South American neighbours, Argentina and Chile. The Argentinians had ordered two ships with 12'' (305 mm) guns, and Chile two superdreadnoughts with 14'' (356 mm) weapons in 1910.
The other countries were forced to respond to Chile's powerful warships, and so Brazil looked into British yards' proposals for a third dreadnought of their own. That dreadnought was eventually named Rio de Janeiro, and exhibited quite the peculiar look: seven turrets with fourteen 12'' guns dotted the silouhette of the ship, due to budgetary constraints preventing the installation of larger guns.
Laid down in mid-September 1911, launched in January 1913, the ship would be put up for sale in October because a national financial crisis left no funds to pay for the ship. The Ottomans obtained the vessel but the outbreak of World War I prevented the delivery of the battleship, pressed instead in British service under the name HMS Agincourt.
She joined the 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet in September 1914 but her service career was fairly uneventful: her most notable action is the battle of Jutland, where she fired 144 main battery shells, though it is unclear whether she ever hit a target.
Present at the surrender of the High Seas Fleet in November 1918, it was quickly placed in reserve in Rosyth in March 1919. The Royal Navy decided to convert her into a mobile naval base, however the Washington Naval Treaty prevented her retention by Britain, and so Agincourt was scrapped in 1924.
Drawings were prepared for her conversion, and had the project gone ahead, the battleship would have undergone the following modifications: removal of five of her seven main gun turrets (numbers #2 and #6 were retained); the mainmast and 4'' guns; the entire casemated 6'' battery and the openings plated over; fitted with minelaying and minesweeping gear, an on-board foundry, a carpenter's and coppersmith's shops, and the remaining deck space left available for shipping equiment.
The other countries were forced to respond to Chile's powerful warships, and so Brazil looked into British yards' proposals for a third dreadnought of their own. That dreadnought was eventually named Rio de Janeiro, and exhibited quite the peculiar look: seven turrets with fourteen 12'' guns dotted the silouhette of the ship, due to budgetary constraints preventing the installation of larger guns.
Laid down in mid-September 1911, launched in January 1913, the ship would be put up for sale in October because a national financial crisis left no funds to pay for the ship. The Ottomans obtained the vessel but the outbreak of World War I prevented the delivery of the battleship, pressed instead in British service under the name HMS Agincourt.
She joined the 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet in September 1914 but her service career was fairly uneventful: her most notable action is the battle of Jutland, where she fired 144 main battery shells, though it is unclear whether she ever hit a target.
Present at the surrender of the High Seas Fleet in November 1918, it was quickly placed in reserve in Rosyth in March 1919. The Royal Navy decided to convert her into a mobile naval base, however the Washington Naval Treaty prevented her retention by Britain, and so Agincourt was scrapped in 1924.
Drawings were prepared for her conversion, and had the project gone ahead, the battleship would have undergone the following modifications: removal of five of her seven main gun turrets (numbers #2 and #6 were retained); the mainmast and 4'' guns; the entire casemated 6'' battery and the openings plated over; fitted with minelaying and minesweeping gear, an on-board foundry, a carpenter's and coppersmith's shops, and the remaining deck space left available for shipping equiment.
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