| Content | • The model is 100% scratch built with planks on frame construction method from the drawings. The hull and all details on deck are made of wood and painted. This model is not a kit and ready for display. Model comes with a display base and a brass name plate as shown photos.
• Specifications: 40.94L x 6.69W x 18.50H (inch) or 104L x 17W x 47H (cm)
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii, please contact us for extra shipping cost.
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax.
HISTORY
 USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service in the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after returning to the U.S. in 1899, but was returned to active service in 1902.
She served until World War I as a training ship for naval cadets and as a floating barracks in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1917, she was mobilized again for war service, patrolling the American coast and escorting transport ships.
Following the end of World War I, Olympia participated in the 1919 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, and conducted cruises in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas to promote peace in the unstable Balkan countries. In 1921, the ship carried the remains of World War I's Unknown Soldier from France to Washington, DC, where his body was interred in Arlington National Cemetery. Olympia was decommissioned for the last time in December 1922 and placed in reserve.
In 1957, the U.S. Navy ceded title to the Cruiser Olympia Association, which restored the ship to her 1898 configuration. Since then, Olympia has been a museum ship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now part of the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia is the oldest steel US warship still afloat. However, the Museum has been unable to fund essential maintenance for the old ship, and attempts to secure outside funding have failed. Therefore the current steward, under direction of the US Navy has put the ship up for availability to new stewards. It will take an estimated ten million dollars to put Olympia in a stable condition.
Olympia was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
As of 2012, Olympia's future was uncertain; repairs are desperately needed to keep the ship afloat. Four entities from San Francisco, California, Beaufort, South Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC, are vying to be a new steward, but it is a race against time due to the waterline deterioration of the hull. As the current entities are in competition for the ship, no significant repairs have been made, although the current steward has done some minor repairs. In reaction to this gap in coverage, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) has set up a fund repository which, if funds are raised, will be directly applied to immediate repairs of the vessel with the cooperation of the current steward. At the present time, March 2012, the NTHP is considering a triple application by the Naval Historical Foundation, the Historic Naval Ships Association, and the National Maritime Association to have Olympia placed on the NTHP's list of the eleven most endangered "places". The steward applicants from San Francisco (Mare Island), and Beaufort, S.C., have endorsed the application. Despite these positive steps, Olympia is in critical danger due to the lack of funds.
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• For some reasons if you wish to return the item, please consider not to open the item out of the wooden crate or open the item out of the styrofoam. You can open the carton box, lift up the whole wooden crate and check the models that are packed in wooden crate. For the items are packed in solid styrofoam, you can open the carton box, lift up the top part (styrofoam lid) and check the model. Please do not cut any strips or take the model out of the wooden crate or out of the styrofoam. It is very risky of damages to the item when you return if you open or remove the item out of the wooden crate or the styrofoam. We only accept and refund in full when the model return in good shape.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
• Buyer pays return shipping.
• 15% restocking fee might apply.
| • The model is 100% scratch built with planks on frame construction method from the drawings.
• The hull is made of wood and painted. This model is not a kit and ready for display.
• Model comes with a display base and a brass name plate as shown photos.
• Specifications approximate: 39.37L x 5.51W x 13H (inch) or 100L x 14W x 33H (cm)
• Brand new product.
• Item ship from Houston Texas by Standard shipping USPS/ UPS/ FedEx ground
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost.
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax if any.
Return/ Exchange Policy
• For some reasons if you wish to return the item, please consider not to open the item out of the wooden crate or open the item out of the styrofoam. You can open the carton box, lift up the whole wooden crate and check the models that are packed in wooden crate. For the items are packed in solid styrofoam, you can open the carton box, lift up the top part (styrofoam lid) and check the model. Please do not cut any strips or take the model out of the wooden crate or out of the styrofoam. It is very risky of damages to the item when you return if you open or remove the item out of the wooden crate or the styrofoam. We only accept and refund in full when the model return in good shape.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
• Buyer pays return shipping.
| • The model is 100% scratch built with planks on frame construction method from the drawings.
• The hull is made of wood and painted. This model is not a kit and ready for display.
• Model comes with a display base and a brass name plate as shown photos.
• Specifications approximate: 43.30L x 10.62W x 21.25H (inch) or 110L x 27W x 54H (cm)
• Brand new product.
• Item ship from Houston Texas by Standard shipping USPS/ UPS/ FedEx ground
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost.
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax if any.
HISTORY
Pelayo was an ironclad battleship of the Spanish Navy which served in the Spanish fleet from 1888 to 1925. She was the first battleship and the most powerful unit of the Spanish Navy. Despite its modern design for the time, Pelayo and the rest of the Spanish Asia-Pacific Rescue Squadron never engaged in combat during the Spanish–American War. Some historians argue the battleship, along with Armored Cruiser Carlos V, would have changed the course of the war dramatically, leading to a possible Spanish victory, thus consolidating Spain's status as a colonial power.
Return/ Exchange Policy
• For some reasons if you wish to return the item, please consider not to open the item out of the wooden crate or open the item out of the styrofoam. You can open the carton box, lift up the whole wooden crate and check the models that are packed in wooden crate. For the items are packed in solid styrofoam, you can open the carton box, lift up the top part (styrofoam lid) and check the model. Please do not cut any strips or take the model out of the wooden crate or out of the styrofoam. It is very risky of damages to the item when you return if you open or remove the item out of the wooden crate or the styrofoam. We only accept and refund in full when the model return in good shape.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
• Buyer pays return shipping.
| • The model is 100% scratch built with planks-on-frame construction method. The hull is made of combination exotic wood stained that you can see the natural wood grains. The masts are full-rigged with full curl sails. It takes hundreds of hours to finish this model by skillful master craftsmen.
• The ornaments such as cannons, anchors, lamps are metal.
• Model is fully assembled and ready to display. The base included with the brass nameplate as show pictures.
• Dimensions overall length approximate 33.85L x 8.26W x 22.04H (inch) or 86L x 21W x 56H (cm)
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii or overseas, please contact us for shipping cost.
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax.
HISTORY
Operational history
Korietz was laid down in Stockholm, Sweden at the Bergsund Mekaniksa shipyards in December 1885, launched on August 7, 1886, and commissioned in 1888.
Assigned to service with the Russian Pacific Fleet in 1895, she was a frequent visitor to ports in Korea, Japan and northern China. During the Boxer Rebellion, she participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance attack on Taku Forts on June 1900. During this battle, she was hit six times by shells fired by the Chinese defenders, and suffered nine crewmen killed and 20 wounded.
Together with the cruiser Varyag, Korietz was dispatched from Port Arthur to the main Korean port of Chemulpo (modern-day Incheon) in early 1904 to protect Russian interests, as diplomatic tensions continued to increase between Russia and the Empire of Japan. After the Russian transport Sungari arrived at Chemulpo on 7 February 1904, reporting the sighting of a large Japanese force approaching, Korietz (under the command of G. P. Belyaev) was ordered to return to Port Arthur to report and request instructions. In the early morning of 8 February 1904, Korietz spotted Chiyoda outside the Chemulpo roadstead, and mistaking it for a fellow Russian ship, loaded its guns for a salute. On closing in, the crew of the Korietz realized their mistake and in the ensuing confusion the guns were discharged. Chiyoda responded by launching a torpedo. Both sides missed, but this was the first actual exchange of fire in the Russo-Japanese War, and it is highly unclear which side actually opened fire first. Korietz retreated back to Chemulpo harbor.
In the subsequent Battle of Chemulpo Bay, Captain Vsevolod Rudnev of the Varyag refused an ultimatum by Imperial Japanese Navy admiral Uryū Sotokichi to surrender, and on February 9, 1904 attempted to break through the Japanese squadron from Chemulpo to the open sea. Vastly outnumbered and outgunned, Korietz fired 52 rounds at the Japanese ships, but was at a distance that most of its shots did not even reach the Japanese fleet. Varyag took heavy damage; Korietz suffered from only light damage from shrapnel with no casualties. Unable to break past the Japanese squadron by mid-afternoon, Korietz and Varyag returned to Chemulpo harbor, where both took refuge near the neutral warships. At 1600 the same day, Korietz was scuttled by its crew by blowing up two ammunition magazines. The crew was taken aboard a French cruiser Pascal, taken to Saigon, French Indochina, and returned to Russia. In St. Petersburg all the officers were awarded the Order of St. George (4th class), the highest military decoration of the Russian Empire.
After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the wreckage of Korietz was raised by Japanese engineers, and scrapped.
Second gunboat
There was a second gunboat named Korietz, laid down in 1906 at the Putilov Plant in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was of the Gilyak class. At the end of the First World War she participated in the Battle of Moon Sound, but was blown up by her crew on August 8, 1915 in to avoid having to be surrendered to German forces.
Return/ Exchange Policy
• For some reasons if you wish to return the item, please consider not to open the item out of the wooden crate or open the item out of the styrofoam. You can open the carton box, lift up the whole wooden crate and check the models that are packed in wooden crate. For the items are packed in solid styrofoam, you can open the carton box, lift up the top part (styrofoam lid) and check the model. Please do not cut any strips or take the model out of the wooden crate or out of the styrofoam. It is very risky of damages to the item when you return if you open or remove the item out of the wooden crate or the styrofoam. We only accept and refund in full when the model return in good shape.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
• Buyer pays return shipping.
• 15% restocking fee might apply.
| • The model is 100% scratch built with planks on frame construction method from the drawings.
• The hull is made of wood and painted. This model is not a kit and ready for display.
• Model comes with a display base and a brass name plate as shown photos.
• Specifications approximate: 36.22"L x 4.72"W x 10.23"H or 92L x 12W x 26H (cm)
• Brand new product. Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost.
• Item ship from Houston Texas by Standard shipping USPS/ UPS/ FedEx ground
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax if any.
Return/ Exchange Policy
• For some reasons if you wish to return the item, please consider not to open the item out of the wooden crate or open the item out of the styrofoam. You can open the carton box, lift up the whole wooden crate and check the models that are packed in wooden crate. For the items are packed in solid styrofoam, you can open the carton box, lift up the top part (styrofoam lid) and check the model. Please do not cut any strips or take the model out of the wooden crate or out of the styrofoam. It is very risky of damages to the item when you return if you open or remove the item out of the wooden crate or the styrofoam. We only accept and refund in full when the model return in good shape.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
• Buyer pays return shipping. | • The model is 100% scratch built with planks on frame construction method from the drawings.
• The hull is made of wood and painted. All the planes on deck are also made of wood and painted. This model is not a kit and ready for display.
• Model comes with a display base and a brass nameplate.
• Specifications approximate: 39.37L x 9.05W x 11.81H (inch) or 100L x 23W x 30H (cm)
• Brand new product.
• Item ship from Houston Texas by Standard shipping USPS/ UPS/ FedEx ground
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost.
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax if any.
Return/ Exchange Policy
• For some reasons if you wish to return the item, please consider not to open the item out of the wooden crate or open the item out of the styrofoam. You can open the carton box, lift up the whole wooden crate and check the models that are packed in wooden crate. For the items are packed in solid styrofoam, you can open the carton box, lift up the top part (styrofoam lid) and check the model. Please do not cut any strips or take the model out of the wooden crate or out of the styrofoam. It is very risky of damages to the item when you return if you open or remove the item out of the wooden crate or the styrofoam. We only accept and refund in full when the model return in good shape.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
• Buyer pays return shipping.
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