Battleship Markgraf, Kaiserliche Marine, 1914, 1: 1250, DeAgostini

Battleship Markgraf, Kaiserliche Marine, 1914, 1: 1250, DeAgostini

The SMS Markgraf was a battleship of the König class of the Kaiserliche Marine (armed of the German Empire) during the First World War. He received his name in honor of one of the titles of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, which in addition to the title of Kaiser, among other titles, bore the Margrave of Brandenburg. The first years of the First World War made operations and exercises in the Baltic and in the North Sea. On April 25, 1916, along with the other battleships of the König class, he provided cover fire by bombarding Lowestoft and Yarmouth. Assigned to the German High Seas Fleet, he took part in the Battle of Jutland in which he received five impacts that caused eleven dead in his crew. In October 1917, during Operation Albion against the Russian Imperial Navy, the Markgraf collided with a mine near the Baltic islands of Osel and Dagö, causing light damage. Boarding at the end of the conflict at the British base of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, it was scuttled by its crew on June 21, 1919, along with the entire German offshore fleet. A group of Royal Marines tried to avoid self-sinking and killed their captain, Walter Schumann, and their first officer, Hermann Dittman. They were two of the nine last German casualties of the First World War.

Scale 1: 1250
Approx length: 14.00 cm.
Total height Approx: 7.50 cm. (including base)
Diecast manufacturing, metal with plastic accessories.
Mounted and painted by hand with original decorations.
Base with the name of the ship (see photo).
Includes fascicle in German.