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Description: | Scale: 1:96. A twin-screw steel cross-Channel packet, built by William Denny & Bros, Dunbarton, for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Company.
On completion in March 1915, in the midst of the First World War, ?Biarritz? was taken over by the Admiralty and commissioned as a minelayer. On being handed back to her owners after the armistice, she commenced her long career as a passenger ferry on the Folkstone ? Boulogne route. From 1921 she was owned by the Southern Railway Company. During the winter of 1925?26 she underwent a refit at Dunbarton during which her boilers were converted from coal to oil burning.
During the Second World War she was used as a Fleet Air Arm target ship and then, from 1942 to 1945, as an infantry landing ship. For two years after the War, ?Biarritz? was engaged in cross-Channel trooping duties, after which she was again refitted at Dunbarton. But, after only one year?s service, she was sold for breaking up.
CA: AAA.
caption: 'Biarritz' (1915) - starboard broadside
caption: 'Biarritz' (1915) - port three quarter view
caption: 'Biarritz' (1915) - starboard quarter view | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum waterline models models (representations) Biarritz 1915 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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