HMS St. Albans Royal Navy Destroyer old USS Thomas DD-182 November 1942 1/400 Mirage 40609

HMS St.Albans Royal Navy Destroyer old USS Thomas DD–182 November 1942

1/400 military submarine scale plastic model kit

Mirage 40609

DECALS included

Manufacturer: Mirage Hobby (Poland)

Scale: 1/400

Material: Plastic

Paint: Unpainted, Unassembled, Kit do not contain paints and glue.

Condition: New in Box

The first USS Thomas (DD–182) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS St Albans (I15), as a Town class destroyer, but spent most of the war in the exiled Norwegian navy, before transferred to the Soviet Navy as Dostoyny.

Simultaneously renamed HMS St Albans (I15) and commissioned the same day for service in the Royal Navy, the destroyer sailed for the British Isles on 29 September. After calling at St. John's, Newfoundland, en route, she arrived at Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 9 October.

St Albans and three sister ships — HMS St Mary's (I12) (ex-USS Bagley (DD-185), HMS Bath (I17) (ex-USS Hopewell (DD-181), and HMS Charlestown (I21) (ex-USS Abbot DD-184 — were attached to the 1st Minelaying Squadron as permanent escort force. Operating off the west coast of Scotland, the destroyers participated in some of the earliest minelaying operations in the Denmark Strait which separates Iceland from Greenland.

Between minecraft escort missions, St Albans escorted convoys. On 17 and 18 January 1941, the destroyer searched for survivors from SS Almeda Star, torpedoed by U-96 on the 17th. St Albans underwent repairs at Chatham in February to prepare for her transfer to the Royal Norwegian Navy-in-exile on 14 April.

Career (US)

Name:

USS Thomas (DD-182)

Namesake:

Clarence Crase Thomas

Builder:

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

Laid down:

23 March 1918

Launched:

4 July 1918

Commissioned:

25 April 1919 to 30 June 1922

17 June 1940 to 23 September 1940

Struck:

8 January 1941

Fate:

Transferred to UK, 23 September 1940

Career (UK)

Name:

HMS St Albans

Namesake:

St Albans

Commissioned:

23 September 1940

Fate:

Transferred Norwegian navy in exile April 1941

Career (Norway)

Name:

KNS (HNoMS) St Albans

Commissioned:

14 April 1941

Fate:

Returned to UK, 4 May 1944

Career (USSR)

Name:

Dostoyny (Worthy)

Acquired:

16 July 1944

Fate:

Transferred to UK for scrapping, 28 February 1949

General characteristics

Class and type:

Wickes class destroyer

Displacement:

1,213 tons

Length:

314 ft 4½ in (95.822 m)

Beam:

31 ft 8 in (9.65 m)

Draft:

9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)

Speed:

35 knots (65 km/h)

Complement:

101 officers and enlisted

Armament:

4 x 4 in (102 mm), 1 x 3 in (76 mm), 12 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (initial)

3 x 4 in (102 mm), 2 x 3 in (76 mm), 4 DC thrower (1941-1944)