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A well presented and finely detailed scale model 1:100 of the Kreigs marine battle ship SMS Markgraf (or Markgrave) [1911]

BUILT BY GÜNTER HILBERT

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A well presented and finely detailed scale model 1:100 of the Kreigs marine battle ship SMS Markgraf (or Markgrave) [1911]
Built by Günter Hilbert
with masts, radio aerials, range finders, lookout posts, anchors with D-chains, anchor winches, fairleads, bollards, deck rails, deck lights, companionways, coaling shoots, main and secondary armament, superstucture with glazed bridge, with wing bridges behind, funnels with mesh tops, search lights, and safetey valve extension pipes, ship boats on rails, comprising two covered boats, four steam launches, and two dinghy's, life rings and other details. The hull with planked decking, sponson guns, sponson nets and rigging, port holes, bilge keels, three three-blade brass propellors and twin rudders, is finished in red below the waterline and battle ship grey and is mounted on a cradle stand with the ship's badge on each corner.
Measurements overall -- 63.5 x 178 cm.

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Lot Essay

S.M.S. Markgraf was one of the four 'Konig' class battleships built for the Imperial German Navy in the years immediately preceding the Great War. Laid down at Bremen in 1911 and launched on 4^th June 1913, she was almost completed when War was declared and she entered service the following January. Displacing 25,390 tons (29,200 fully loaded), she measured 575½ feet in length with a 97 foot beam and carried a main armament of 10-12in. guns. Like most other German capital ships, she spent most of the War blockaded in port but she was in action at Jutland (31^s^t May -- 1^s^t June 1916) where she suffered significant damage. Subsequently repaired and put back into commission, she was amongst the vessels which surrendered to the Allies in November 1918 and laid up in Scapa Flow where, along with the rest of the once mighty High Seas Fleet, she was scuttled on 21^s^t June 1919.

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