Description: NO RESERVE. 1/1250 WWI SMS Gneisenau Armored Cruiser,Second Ship of 2-Ship Scharnhorst-class Armored Cruisers, her sister being SMS Scharnhorst, 1908-1914. Gneisenau and her sister SMS Scharnhorst were built for overseas service and were the last class of traditional armored cruisers built by Imperial Germany's Kaiserliche Marine. The type was made obsolete by the Royal Navy's introduction of the faster and more heavily-armed battlecruiser - the first of which were the three Invincible-class ships HMS Invincible, HMS Inflexible and HMS Indomitable, all three being laid down in 1906 and completed from mid-1908 through early 1909. Gneisenau was laid down on December 28, 1904, launched on June 14, 1906 and commissioned on March 8, 1908. She was assigned to Germany's East Asia Squadron in 1910 to join her sister-ship Scharnhorst. Departing Germany on November 10 of that year, she only arrived at Tsingtao, the squadron's home port on March 14, 1911. Although Scharnhorst was the lead ship of the class, she wasn't laid down until March 22, 1905, which was several months after Gneisenau, but the rate of her construction outpaced that of Gneisenau, and she was launched on March 23, 1906 and commissioned on October 24, 1907. Assigned to the East Asia Squadron on March 11, 1909, she left Kiel for the Far East that April 1. Rendezvouing in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on April 29 with the old armored cruiser SMS Furst Bismarck ("Prince Bidsmarck"), she relieved the older ship as the squadron's flagship. On December, 1912 Vice Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee (then still a Konteradmiral) took over command of the squadron, retaining Scharnhorst as the flagship. The East Asia Squadron was based at Germany's Kiautschou Bay concession from China, a 213 square mile of territory leased from Imperial and then Early Republican China which existed from 1898 through 1914. The concession was centered on Jiaozhou ("Kiautschou") Bay northwest of China's Shandong Peninsula and was administered by the squadron from the port of Tsingtao. At the start of WWI Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were in the Caroline Islands, then a German colony, on a routine cruise. Von Spee's other ships in the squadron, the light cruisers Emden, Leipzig and Nurnberg, the auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, and several colliers, where at different locations around the Pacific, with Leipzig operating independently in the eastern Pacific in waters off South America. Leaving Leipzig to continue its current operations, von Spee consolidated his other ships in the Central Pacific with the intention of eventually rounding Cape Horn in an attempt to return to Germany. After detaching Emden as a commerce raider on August 13, 1914, von Spee then took his other four warships and their colliers south to attempt to intercept Allied ships around island groups such as the Samoas and Tahiti and hoping to coal from stores ashore at British and French colonies. The only success met by the force was to sink the French gunboat off the French colony of Papeete. Fearing Papeete harbor might be mined, von Spee decided against seizing any coal to be found there and headed toward Easter Island to coal from his own colliers. A little earlier, the light cruiser Dresden, which had been raiding commerce along the South Atlantic coast of South America had transited into the Pacific via the Strait of Magellan. After Dresden and Leipzig had joined up off of Chile, both cruisers and four more colliers rendezvoused with von Spee's other ships at Easter Island. On October 18, the squadron sailed to the west coast of South America. After several port calls for supplies and to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of a British Royal Navy group of warships sent to intercept them, they encountered the enemy off the central coast of Chile near the port of Coronel on November 1. The British force was to the west of von Spee's and he evaded opening fire until sunset when the British ships were silhouetted on the western horizon. In the resulting action, von Spee's ships sank the British armored cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth and damaged the light cruiser Glasgow with minimum damage to his own. Glasgow and the other British ship involved, the auxiliary cruiser Otranto, escaped in the darkness. The British casualties totaled 1,660 when both armored cruisers were lost with all hands - Good Hope with 926 officers and men aboard and Monmouth with 734. The German's casualties came to only 3 men wounded. Since know as the Battle of Coronel, this was the Royal Navy's first defeat since 1814 when it lost the Battle of Plattsburgh - or the Battle of Lake Champlain as it is known to the victorious U.S. Navy. The loss at Coronel was so ignominious that some six hours after the news of the battle reached England, First Sea Lord Admiral Jackie Fisher ordered that the battlecruisers Invincible and Inflexible be detached from the Grand Fleet to hunt down the German ships. The flotilla formed for the mission also included four armored cruisers and two light cruisers - including the Glasgow which joined up with the other ships in the South Atlantic. The British ships encountered von Spee's squadron off the Falkland Islands on December 8, 1914 and annihilated it - sinking all of the German ships except the Dresden which managed to escape. German losses were 1871 men including Admiral von Spee with 215 captured. In contrast the British ships suffered minimum damage with only 10 were killed and 19 wounded. Dresden eluded British ships that were hunting her down until they found her at anchor off Robin Crusoe Island on March 15, 1915 and opened fire, causing the Germans to scuttle the ship and abandon her. This group of models are full-hull pieces with the complete underwater portion, including screws and rudders. Very nicely detailed with well-defined mask lines between the different colors of paint used to add to their authenticity.The model comes mounted on a black resin base and is packed between two matching formed clear plastic "supporting" pieces which are carried inside a formed flexible outer plastic point-of-sale display case mounted on a cardboard backing card. It is recommended that the model be kept upright when the packaging is opened so that it doesn't lean over and bend or break off a fragile part like a mast. Once unpacked, the ship's masts, yards and radars might require slight 'tweaking' to properly straighten or align them. Metal and plastic model. DeAgostini #DAKS51. MIB. However, as suggested above, the nature of these models is such that small parts including masts, antenna, bridge deck levels and turrets and gun barrels can be misaligned. These conditions are generally only noticeable at close inspection and often can be carefully 'tweaked' into proper alignment. Although the models in this series that we sell are all factory-new, we cannot make any representations that all their features are perfectly straight and correctly positioned. FOR ANYONE NOT FAMILIAR WITH HOW TO INTERPRET A MODEL'S SCALE, THE MODEL IS 4 5/8 INCHES LONG. THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO DIVIDING THE LENGTH OF THE REAL SHIP IN INCHES BY 1250.Buyer pays shipping as indicated: (1) US - Free Shipping by USPS First Class Package or Priority Mail to anywhere in the 50 states depending on weight. (2) CANADA - $16.00 US for this 1/1250 Scale item; $2.00 US per item for each additional 1/43 or smaller scale item in the same shipment. (3) LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE - $24.00 US for this 1/1250 Scale item; $3.50 US for each additional 1/43 or smaller scale item in the same shipment. (4) ALL OTHER COUNTRIES - $24.00 US for this 1/1250 Scale item; $4.50 US for each additional item 1/43 or smaller scale item in the same shipment. International shipments will be identified as "Merchandise" on the necessary US Customs forms and the price paid for each model in a given shipment will be used as its declared value. Any duties or other taxes levied on any foreign shipment are to be borne by the buyer. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS BY FIRST CLASS MAIL INTERNATIONAL, WHICH COVERS PACKAGES UP TO 4 LBS IN WEIGHT. BECAUSE THIS MODEL IS RELATIVELY LIGHT-WEIGHT, IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE TO SHIP A FEW ADDITIONAL MODELS WITH IT AND STILL BE UNDER THE 4 LBS. LIMIT. THE INCREMENTAL SHIPPING AND HANDLING CHARGES FOR ADDITIONAL MODELS WILL VARY BETWEEN $2.00 AND $4.50 EACH, DEPENDING UPON WHERE THE MODELS ARE TO BE SHIPPED. Virginia buyers pay 6.0% Sales Tax. Allow 10 days for checks to clear. EMAIL US TO HOLD ITEMS PENDING ADDING MORE TO THE SHIPMENT.
Price: 22.95 USD
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Model: Pre-Assembled & Fully Painted
Scale: 1:1250
MPN: DAKS51
Brand: DeAgostini
Vehicle Make: Scharnhorst-class Armored Cruiser
Country/Region of Manufacture: China
Material: Resin
Theme: WWI Warship
Series: WWI Warship Collection
Features: FREE US SHIPPING; REDUCED INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING, Full-hull Warship Model, Model Comes in Split Vacuum-formed Packaging, DeAgostini DAKS 1/1250, 1/1250 Scharnhorst Armored Cruiser, 1/1250 Gneisenau, DAKS Armored Cruiser, 1/1250 DAKS51, DeAgostini 51 1/1250, With Stand
Vehicle Type: Armored Cruiser
Vehicle Year: 1908-1914
Type: German Warship
Replica of:: SMS Gneisenau
Recommended Age Range: 14+
