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Description: | Scale: probably 1:48. A shipbuilder?s model of the highest quality and unusual in that it depicts the vessel with a torpedo net rigged off the port bow. The model warrants close inspection. The ship?s boats, models within models, are beautifully executed. What looks like a map of a dockside is displayed on the bridge chart table. A rope locker lies open on deck.
HMS ?Snapdragon? was a ?Flower?-class sloop of 1250 tons, launched at Ropners Yard at Stockton-on-Tees on 21 December 1915. She was commissioned two months later with a Devonport crew for service on the Mediterranean Station where she was employed on escort duties until the end of the First World War. In 1916 she saved the crew of a British collier that had been torpedoed by an enemy submarine. While picking up the crew, two torpedoes were fired at ?Snapdragon? that passed only 10 and 20 metres ahead of her.
Near the end of the war it engaged a surfaced U-boat and later picked up 33 members of the crew, including First Lieutenant Karl Doenitz who was later to be Grand Admiral of the German Fleet during the Second World War. From 1919 to it being sold for breaking up in 1934, ?Snapdragon? was used for fleet target towing duties.
CA: AAA. Base missing. Repaired by R Varrell in 1967.
HMS Snapdragon was a Flower Class sloop of 1250 tons, launched at Ropner Shipbuilding & Repairing Co (Stockton) Ltd on 21 December 1915. She was commissioned two months later with a Devonport crew for service on the Mediterranean Station where she was employed on escort duties until the end of the First World War. In 1916 she saved the crew of a British collier that had been torpedoed by an enemy submarine. While picking up the crew, two torpedoes were fired at Snapdragon that passed only 10 and 20 metres ahead of her.
Near the end of the war she engaged a surfaced U-boat and later picked up 33 members of the crew, including First Lieutenant Karl Doenitz who was later to be Grand Admiral of the German Fleet during the Second World War. From 1919 to her being sold for breaking up in 1934, ?Snapdragon? was used for fleet target towing duties.
caption: HMS Snapdragon - port broadside
caption: HMS Snapdragon - port three quarter view
caption: HMS Snapdragon - port quarter view
caption: HMS Snapdragon - port three quarter view high
caption: HMS Snapdragon - bow detail with net
caption: HMS Snapdragon - midships detail
caption: HMS Snapdragon - bow detail high
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Snapdragon 1915 Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum full hull ship models Royal Thames Yacht Club | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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