1/700 HMS Boadicea (AJM Models)
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by Jerry Lloyd |
1/700 HMS Boadicea (AJM Models)
My model depicts HMS Boadicea as she looked in 1943 her colours are B5 blue, MS3 grey and MS1 dark grey, she was built by Hawthorne Leslie at Hebburn on the Tyne completing in April 1931 and when new had a top speed of 35 knots, in 1936 she took British subjects to safety from the Spanish civil war, during WW2 she was crippled by air attack in 1940 whilst evacuating the remnants of the 51 division from Le Havre and had to be towed home her repair taking seven months, her new armament was 3 x 4.7inch, 1 x 3inch AA, 2 x 2pdr, 4 x 21inch torpedo tubes and 30 depth charges with 1 rack and 6 throwers, a type 286M search radar was fitted to her masthead and a MF/DF (medium frequency direction finder) loop was fitted on a pole between her funnels to locate where enemy radio signals were coming from, in 1942 a further refit replaced the MF/DF with a more effective Huff-Duff (high frequency direction finder) on a pole mast aft and 20mms replaced her 2pdrs, in June 1944 she was lost off Portland escorting a convoy to France.
