Academy Ships 1/350 HMS Warspite Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship Kit

Several years prior to the outbreak of World War I, the Royal Navy commissioned a new class of battleships to replace the agining Iron Duke class. These new battleships were faster, better armored and hosted superior firepower than its predecessors and were a formidable match of the best battleships of the day. Armed with eight 15 inch guns mounted in pairs, the design had two turrets forward and two aft. The first in class was the HMS Queen Elizabeth followed by Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, and Agincourt. HMS Warspite was laid down in October 1912, launched in November 1913, and commissioned in March 1915. Being one of the Royal Navy's best capital ships, you might expect the ship's non-combat record to be uneventful, but reading through her service history, she might have been easily called HMS Career Killer. In her first months of service, Warspite ran aground in 1915 before colliding with her sister ship HMS Barham later in the year. In the Battle of Jutland, Warspite took 15