HMS "Grenade" - the British destroyer

The destroyer HMS "Grenade" was part of a series of 8 ships, known as the "G" type, which were part of a large series of destroyers, designated as "A-I" or "Admiralty Type". It was the same type of ship, as the Polish ORP "Garland". The keel of "Grenade" was laid on October 3, 1934, the launching ceremony took place on November 12, 1935, and the building was completed and the ship was put into service on March 28, 1936. After sea trials and crew training, HMS "Grenade" is assigned to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet, and Commandor Richard C. Boyle is appointed commander. The beginning of the war caught the ship and its crew, while standing in the port of Alexandria. In October 1939, the destroyer was sent to Great Britain, where it arrived on October 25. Here he escorted convoys and carried out patrol duties against German U-boats in the English Channel. As part of the Home Fleet, the ship participated in the Norwegian company, on April 12 it escorted the tanker "British Lady" on its journey to Skjae Fjord. 4 days later, along with the destroyer HMS "Encounter", she joined to the escort of the battleship HMS "Warspite" near Narvik, later assigned to the escort force of the aircraft carrier HMS "Ark Royal", which operated near the islands of Namsa and Andalsnes. On May 3, 1940, the crew of HMS "Grenade" rescued the crew of the French destroyer "Bison", which was heavily damaged by German Junkers Ju-87 near Trondheim. The English ship picked up the French crew, then sanked off the destroyer itself. On May 13, 1940, a new order was received, which returned the ship to the operational zone in the English Channel. On May 26, "Grenede" sailed to Dunkirk, where the emergency evacuation of British soldiers took place in the framework of "Dynamo" operation. The destroyer, along with other destroyers (HMS "Codrington", HMS "Jaguar", HMS "Javelin") formed a patrol line between Kwente Bouy and West Hinder. On May 28, the ship's sailors rescued 33 crew members of the steamship "Abukir", which was sunk by a German torpedo cutter. The next day, "Grenade" successfully repulsed two German bomber attacks, but a third wave of Ju-87s arrived, when the ship was already moored at Dunkirk. This time Fortune turned away from the British destroyer - three bombs hit the ship. While towing "Grenade" to Britain, an explosion occurred in the ammunition stores and the ship sank.

A medium-sized, rather complex, well-designed and maximally detailed model for this scale (just maybe a little too "rusty") for intermediate and experienced modelers. Stock colors are available, the model reproduces the appearance of the ship in April 1940. The graphic instruction is average, easy to read, informative, the text is small, but perfectly complements the drawings (in Polish and English).