Airfix Vintage Classics - HMS Ark Royal 1:600

Launched at the Birkenhead shipyard of Cammel Laird on the 13th April 1937, H.M.S. Ark Royal was involved in the sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck. Later she was torpedoed by the German Submarine U-81. At 0613 hrs. on 14th November 1941 she went down, only one sailor losing his life.

Mould tools made in 1966

Box illustration by Roy Cross, 1966.