Kit of a semi-submersible steam craft of the American Civil War in 1:35 scale. The vessel attacked with a contact charge on a long spar fixed to the bow.
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From 1863 a Confederate port in South Carolina was held in the grip of a far stronger fleet, and the defenders looked for a way to stand up to ironclad ships. Out of that came a vessel resembling a cigar, roughly fifteen meters long, with a steam engine and tanks that were filled with water before an attack. The craft then ran with its hull just below the surface, and only the funnel and a low hatch stayed above the water, which made it practically invisible at night.
The weapon was a heavy charge of gunpowder fitted to a spar several meters long projecting from the bow. The crew was to drive it below the surface into the side of the enemy and set the charge off. The night attack of October 5, 1863 on an ironclad anchored at the mouth of the port ended in a powerful explosion which damaged the enemy but at the same time swamped the craft itself and put out the fire in its boiler. Some of the crew abandoned the vessel, but two men got the engine going again and brought her back.
The name arose from an allusion to the biblical duel of a small shepherd with a giant, and it passed to the whole type, so vessels of this kind came to be named after the first of them. It was a direct forerunner of the later torpedo boats and, in a wider sense, of submerged attack in general, even though the craft never dived completely.
The large 1:35 scale allows the wooden planking, the riveting and the spar with its charge to be worked out. The model goes well with figures and a scene of a calm night water surface.
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