Cristiano

It seems effectively the Pola, probably you are right.

The plane on the foredeck was used not for fight but for exploration of the operating zone of the ship (it was a pre-radar period).

It was launched with a catapult and after its duty it was recovered and placed again on the catapult with a crane.

It remind me the Italian light cruisers of the second world war, like the Alberto Di Giussano.

But they not matches completely...

hello mike

if you are looking for a launch of good size available in UK, i warmly suggest the 1800 armed pinnace from Mantua/panart:

its scale is 1:16 and can be easily find in UK.

check at the website

www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/mantua_armed_pinnace.html

well, this is a typical norman ship, so we must search in france history from year 900 to 1100...more or less

Great maaaslo!

Smart move using a scanned photo from a book!

since it is not present directly in the web, now we are forced to use really the brain!

Google cannot anymore be the key factor for solving your puzzle!

That the end of a lazy search with Google, using the brain in "stand-by mode"!

Great maaaslo!

Smart move using a scanned photo from a book!

since it is not present directly in the web, now we are forced to use really the brain!

Google cannot anymore be the key factor for solving your puzzle!

That the end of a lazy search with Google, using the brain in "stand-by mode"!

A bit complex...

In my opinion is a ship belonging to the scottish company R & J Craig of Glasgow.

They owned a lot of four masted clippers.

the problem is the name...

maybe "County of Caithness" ?

AAArgh!

they were all hydentical!

with the same colours!

There was a ship hydentical to the photo and was called "Great Harry".

It was a kit made from Mantua several years ago, but of course not in a bottle!

If you search with Google with "Great Harry ship" as keywords, you will find various images.

Frankly I don't know if it was a ship really existed or a partly fictious one.

I am a little upset...

this time my photo remained a mistery for just three hours!

Yes, amateur, you're right.

it was the most famous russian ship: the "Князь Потёмкин-Таврический"

The mutiny of its crew has been considered a prelude of the russian revolution that happened some years after.

The ship become a symbol of the revolution and consequently an apologetic nationalist movie based on it was made.

Well, next time I will hit more hard and DIG MORE DEEPLY IN THE CEMETARY OF HISTORY!

I was tempted to rename the file "Amerigo Vespucci", but "Titanic" i though was enough...

It is a monstruous carbon steel red herring!! :D

Sorry Spyglass,

frankly I was simply lucky with the keywords and Google.

I am not a God of knowledge!

This is mine ship.

I will check or answer to this post only this evening (Italian evening).

Four masted bark LYNTON

Hello Mike,

I don't suggest to purchase the Blue Shadow, unless it is a real real bargain.

I am currently making the Mamoli Halifax, which is a rather good kit, but it belong to the family of their old kit projects.

The Blue Shadow is a rather new project and I think it is a kit developed just to put on the market something new.

I didn't find any evidence that it existed and I am not convinced of the accessories provided, too.

Generally the Mamoli kits seems (seems to me, of course) of average good overall quality only if they are old projects.

The new projects seems not so good.

Regarding the drawings and instructions, are not for a novice.

The drawings are complete, but the instructions are few, so you must be defintely not a novice.

If you are at your first experience with the wood models, try something more easy.

I cannot make any suggestions, since in Italy the market is "crowded" by five kit Italians manufacturers, but I don't know which are the manufacturers currently available in your country.

is it maybe the steamer CAPTAIN THOMAS WILSON ?

launched in august 1900.

if not, it is its brother...

Well, theoretically you can make three or four posts naming a ship in each one...so you solve the problem!

in my opinion can be a white star line ship, like the RMS ADRIATIC , which served as a troop ship, too.

it remind me a british troopship of the first world war, but refining the research can be a very big problem...

Russian Battleship SLAVA (Borodino class) ??

AARRRGh!

ELETTRA yes!

I provided too many hints!

it is obvious that I am new to that game!

Elettra, the floating laboratory of one of the radio inventors: Guglielmo Marconi.

For Captainsteve: From that ship with a radio command he switched on the light in a Sydney exibition, far 22000 km.

Well, one piece of that ship is exposed in Sidney now.

No, Venetia is not right.

For wim500: the road is paved now!

but the winner is the one that write the name!

No, no Apaches in its life...

In which ways a ship can become worldwide famous (in its times of course)??

Interesting how you put on the same level the lenght of the Titanic and boat from Jaws...

but, NO.

Just for CaptainSteve: your Country (and others,too) is connected to the history of that ship...

No,

but I admit that the photo is not so much clear...

a small hint: during its life it was a very very very very very famous and knew ship.

here is the ship.

Note: now I go to sleep, so I cannot be available for 7-8 hours...

Great! I'm outside now, but within two hours i will post the ship photo!