R Class

Statistics
- Scale: 1/32
- Length: 61.5″ (1560 millimetres)
- Beam: 5 inches (127 millimetres)
£750
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About this model
The world’s first Hunter Killer submarine, the ‘R Class’ had a 22-man crew (2 officers and 20 ratings) and was 163 feet long, by 16 ft (beam) and had a displacement of 420 tons. It had 6 x 18 inch torpedo tubes later replaced by 6 X 21 inch torpedoes tubes, an 8 cylinder engine with 480 HP and 2 electric motors (1200 HP) and could reach speeds of 9.5 knots on the surface and 15 submerged. The R class group of submarines were the fastest commissioned boats until the later days of WWII (1944) when the German Type 21 was commissioned – not bad for a small WWI Submarine!
The submarine was first laid down by Vickers on the Tyne on December 1917, commissioned in 1918 and scrapped in 1929.
Watch a video of our friend Steve Neil, reviewing and building an OTW Designs R-Class kit.
Included in the kit
- Detailed hull, deck and tower, all in glass fibre.
- Front and rear dive planes and guards.
- Drop skeg twin rudders, six brass bushes.
- All stainless steel pivot rods.
- 8 Kingston valves, tower hatch, tower floor and deck in brass.
- 3 tower vents, 2 periscope and wireless aerial bases in brass.
- All periscopes and wireless aerial, binnacle, anchor, Samson posts, bollards,
- aerial fittings for deck, scale 4-bladed propeller and shaft, all tower rails and fittings.
- A detailed plan.
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