1/700 HMS Coventry 1940 (HP Models)
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by Jerry Lloyd |
1/700 HMS Coventry 1940 (HP Models)
HMS Coventry was built by Swan Hunter completing in 1918 as a Ceres class light cruiser with a top speed of 29 knots, in 1937 she was converted to an AA cruiser, the Royal Naval gunnery school HMS Excellent at Portsmouth devised a special AA course for the RNVR crews for her and her sister ship HMS Calcutta and she was fitted with a short wave air search radar type 279 with a range of about 100 miles on a clear day, HMS Coventry was transferred to the Med Fleet in 1940 where she was worth her weight in gold according to Admiral Cunningham who included this ship in most of his plans, the false bow wave was intended to deceive enemy submarines about her speed so they would fire torpedoes too far ahead, her armament as originally converted was 10 x 4inch and 2 x octuple pom-poms but 2 x 4inch on the main deck amidships were landed and 2 x quad MGs replaced her aft pom-pom, she was lost in 1942 in the Med.
