HMS Eskimo (L-75/F-75/G-75) was a Tribal-class British destroyer, laid down by the High Walker Yard of Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 5 August 1936. It was launched on 3 September 1937 and commissioned on 30 December 1938._x000D_
Eskimo participated in the Second Battle of Narvik in April 1940, supported the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942 and served with the 10th Destroyer Flotilla at Plymouth. It attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-971 while in company with the Canadian destroyer HMCS Haida and a Liberator aircraft of the Czech air force in the English Channel north of Brest on 24 June 1944. During the final days of the war, it operated in the Far East. For most of the spring of 1945, she was employed in operations south of Ramree Island (Burma) where odd parties of Japanese were holding out. ESKIMO and other Tribals later joined up with Force 61 to intercept and destroy what was left of the Japanese surface fleet._x000D_
HMS Eskimo was reduced to an accommodation and headquarters ship for minesweepers, wreck-disposal vessels, and salvage craft clearing the Thames and Medway estuaries in 1946. It was used as a target ship in the Gareloch, sold for scrap on 27 June 1949 and finally broken up at Troon._x000D_
Item No 05331_x000D_
Item Name HMS Eskimo Destroyer 1941_x000D_
Bar Code 9580208053318_x000D_
Scale 1:350_x000D_
Item Type Static Kit_x000D_
Model Brief Length: 328.3mm Beam:15.8 mm_x000D_
Total Parts 250+_x000D_
Metal Parts n/a_x000D_
Photo Etched Parts 1 piece_x000D_
Film Parts n/a_x000D_
Resin Parts n/a_x000D_
Total Sprues 7 sprues and hull_x000D_
Paint Schemes HMS Eskimo Destroyer 1941_x000D_
Released Date 2012-11_x000D_
More Features " The kit contains over 250 parts,includes a piece of photo etched parts_x000D_
- the hull made from two-directional slide molds_x000D_
- Contains display stand"
