COBI H.M.H.S. Britannic Set 1681 (Damaged Box)

COBI's H.M.H.S. Britannic is a 1:700 model built from 636 blocks, 38.5 cm long, supplied with a display stand and a plaque carrying the ship's name.

Condition

This set is sold at a reduced price because the outer box is damaged — it may have holes, creases or crushed corners. The contents are brand new, sealed and complete. If you are building the model rather than collecting sealed boxes, the only difference is the price.

The model

The cranes swing, the propellers and rudder turn, and the model carries the hospital-ship livery the real vessel wore: white hull, a green band along her length and the red crosses that were meant to keep her safe. Every marking is printed onto the blocks — this set contains no stickers — and nothing needs gluing or painting.

The ship that never carried a passenger

Britannic was the third and last of the Olympic-class liners, laid down after Titanic sank and redesigned because of it: a double hull along the boiler and engine rooms, watertight bulkheads carried higher, and enormous gantry davits able to launch lifeboats even with the ship listing badly. She was finished as a hospital ship in 1915 and never took on a fare-paying passenger.

On 21 November 1916 she struck a mine in the Kea Channel in the Aegean and sank in 55 minutes — faster than Titanic, despite every improvement. Almost everyone got off: 30 died out of 1,065 aboard. She remains the largest ship lost in the First World War, and Jacques Cousteau found the wreck in 1975, lying on her side at 120 metres.

Specifications

Pieces: 636 · Scale: 1:700 · Age: 7+
Model dimensions: 38.5 × 12 cm (15.2 × 4.7 in)
Condition: new and sealed, outer box damaged