HMS Lightning was a torpedo boat, built by John Thornycroft at Church Wharf in Chiswick for the Royal Navy, which entered service in 1876 and was the first seagoing vessel to be armed with self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. She was later renamed Torpedo Boat No. 1. As originally built, Lightning had two drop collars to launch torpedoes; these were replaced in 1879 by a single torpedo tube in the bow. She also carried two reload torpedoes amidships. The Lightning spent her life as a tender to the torpedo school HMS Vernon at Portsmouth and was used for some experiments. She was broken up in 1896 Details of the STAND OFF SCALE kit The fibreglass hull in this kit is with full plating detail. Computer generated LASER CUT 1.5mm H I Ps plastic forms the deck and 1mm LASER CUT superstructure A complete set of fittings are included in the kit with all detail parts such as weapons, deck fittings, etc, cast in light alloy and 3d printed in resin to add the museum quality of details, Propshaft in stainless steel are cased in brass proptubes + comprehensive instruction and a detailed instruction book plus a set of decals and a FULL SIZE PLAN and a build c/d of 100s of pictures In colour assist in the assembly of this impressive model.

length 720mm beam 95mm SCALE 1/32