{"product_id":"trumpeter-05757-1-700-tribal-class-destroyer-hms-eskimo-f751941","title":"05757 1\/700 TribalClass Destroyer HMS Eskimo (F75)1941 Plastic Model Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eHMS 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. 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003eItem No    05757\u003cbr\u003eItem Name    Tribal-class destroyer HMS Eskimo (F75)1941\u003cbr\u003eBar Code    9580208057576\u003cbr\u003eScale    1:700\u003cbr\u003eItem Type    Static Kit\u003cbr\u003eModel Brief    Length: 164.4mm   Width: 15.9mm   Height: 47.5mm\u003cbr\u003eTotal Parts    92pcs\u003cbr\u003eMetal Parts    n\/a\u003cbr\u003ePhoto Etched Parts    n\/a\u003cbr\u003eFilm Parts    n\/a\u003cbr\u003eResin Parts    n\/a\u003cbr\u003eTotal Sprues    5 sprues, upper hull, lower hull and waterline plate\u003cbr\u003ePaint Schemes    HMS Eskimo (F75) 1941\u003cbr\u003eReleased Date    2008-11\u003cbr\u003eMore Features \" -Two-directional slide-molded upper hull\u003cbr\u003e-Lower hull made from two-directional slide molds\u003cbr\u003e-Sponsons are represented on lower hull by slide-mold\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trumpeter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41276619817116,"sku":"TR05757","price":31.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/9095\/3628\/products\/55ea79b46558c.jpg?v=1735858680","url":"https:\/\/www.harveynorman.lol\/products\/trumpeter-05757-1-700-tribal-class-destroyer-hms-eskimo-f751941","provider":"Hobbyco","version":"1.0","type":"link"}