1940 HAND MADE WOOD BRITISH BATTLESHIP PRINCE OF WALES &1941 LA TIMES OF SINKING

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1940 HAND MADE WOOD BRITISH BATTLESHIP PRINCE OF WALES &1941 LA TIMES OF SINKING:
$109.99

MADEIN ENGLAND ~ 1940 HAND MADE WOOD MODEL BRITISH BATTLESHIP HMS PRINCE OF WALES

~PLUS AN ORIGINAL COPY OF THE 1941 LOS ANGELES TIMES ~

Up for sale!

Two Pieces ofHistory:

FIRST

Aone of a kind

Madein England

1940Vintage

HandMade Wooden Model

BritishBattleship

HMSPrince of Wales

ModelMeasures

11¼” in length,1¼” in width, 3” in height

Comesin a black framed glass & mirror display case with brass placard

Brassplacard reads

HisMajesty’s Ship (HMS) Prince of Wales

RoyalNavy King George the Fifth Class Battleship

Commissioned:19 January 1941

Sunkby Japanese Naval Aircraft: 10 December 1941

Displaycase measures

13½” (l) by 8½”(w) by 6¼” (h)

SECOND

An Original Copy of the Thursday Morning, December 11th 1941 issueof the Los Angeles Times Newspaper

The FirstEdition Newspaper Reports the initial report and details of the sinking of theBritish Battleship; HMS Prince of Wales, and the British Battlecruiser; HMS Repulse

The Newspaper includes:

THURSDAY MORNING ~ LOS ANGELES TIMES ~ DECEMBER 11, 1941

LATEST ACTION – Fighting in the Pacific yesterdaycentered around the northern end of the island of Luzon in the Philippines andaround the peninsula of Malaya. This mapby Times staff Artist Charles H. Owens indicates the principal scenes ofaction.

LOST TO BRITISH – Battle cruiser Repulse as itappeared in English dry dock in 1939. Yesterday British Admiralty admitted herloss under Jap attack off Malaya coast. (AP)Wirephoto

SAFELY HOME – First Officer E. F. Sommers ofAnzac Clipper shown with his wife and daughter on return from Hawaii. Hearrived there after Jap air raid started. WideWorld photo

SEA BATTLE VICTIM – H. M. S. Prince of Wales one ofBritain’s newest warships and on which Lord Halifax was brought to the UnitedStates, has been sunk by Japs. Wide Worldphoto

BLACK-OUT – Lieut R. O. Smith, left, ofSheriff’s office, instructs inmates who are blacking out windows of County Jailso as to conform with air-raid precautions. Timesphoto

WOMEN ON GUARD – Mrs. Harry Berg, left, and Mrs.Art King act as air-raid observers at Point Fermin in San Pedro, Women keepvigil in shifts. (AP) photo

MEN MUST EAT – Prospective naval recruits beingfed sandwiches by F.H.A. employees. Postmaster Mary D. Briggs, center, whoseidea it was, directs the feast. Timesphoto

Newspaper Measures

17\" by 22\"

Comes in a Black Picture Frame

About the Ship:

HMSPrince of Wales

BritishBattleship ~ King George V Class

Commissioned;19 January 1941

Sankin combat by Japanese Aircraft; 10 December 1941

The Prince of Wales participatedin the Battle of Denmark Strait against the German Battleship Bismarckand the Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen.

Commissioned in 1941, the Prince of Wales fought the GermanBattleship Bismarck when the Bismarck and the PrinzEugen broke out into the Atlantic in May 1941.

In that battle, HMS Hood was hit by fire from the Bismarckand exploded, immediately sinking with only three out of nearly 2000crewmembers surviving. The Prince of Wales was also hit by theGerman ships and damaged, but she had also damaged the Bismarck.

Several days later the Bismarck was tracked down by otherBritish warships and was sunk attempting to make for the safety of Germancontrolled bases on the French coast.

Princeof Wales was transferred later in 1941 tothe Pacific to protect British interest, the British outpost at Singapore, anddeter Japanese aggression.

It failed. After the Japanese attack on United States Fleet at PearlHarbor on Dec 7th 1941, utilizing land based aircraft, the Japanese attackedthe Princeof Wales and the British Battle Cruiser Repulse, off the coast ofMalaya on December 10th, sinking them both.

It was the first time a modern \"Super\" Battleship wassunk by airpower while underway and at sea and was the end of the Battleship asthe Capital Ship Force of any Navy.

A “J&L LIVING” ITEM ~ “POP& JOHNS ATTIC”