This time I bought two core fleets – one British and the other German, although I’ve since added a few others – Austro-Hungarian, French and Italian warships. Well, I bought a few, then a few more, and before I knew it I had a range of pre-dreadnoughts, most of which were from the period from 1890-1910 – around the time HMS Dreadnought entered service in 1906 and changed the face of naval warfare forever.
Jim was offering them for sale, as a way of raising money for Mrs. He had a friend – a ship modeller called Mike Earll – who died, leaving his poor widow with a garage full of scratch-built ship models. However, I’d already adopted the rule that I shouldn’t take on a major new period without abandoning an old one, and by that time I’d already started collecting a whole new set of pre-dreadnoughts. This was a difficult thing to do, as the ships really looked great. I’ve since sold these two fleets to my buddy Dave Marks down in London, who should put them to good use.
There’s Something Wrong with our Bloody Fish Today! (2).In accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty, which rendered her incapable of further combat service, Maine was struck in July 1921 and sold in December 1923 for scrapping.Ī model of Maine is on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Additionally, many of her smaller guns were removed to arm other ships. Decommissioned on May 15, 1920, she still received the designation of BB-10 in July. During World War I, she trained engineers, armed-guard crews, and midshipmen. Recommissioned after modifications in June 1911, she returned to operations off the eastern coast. Maine served as the flagship to the Third Squadron before decommissioned in August 1909. Due to her heavy coal consumption, she returned to the United States before the other ships in October 1908. As one of the battleships of the Great White Fleet, Maine departed in December 1907. Her duty for the next five years was to serve in the Atlantic and off the eastern coast of the United States. The lead ship of her pre-Dreadnought battleship class, USS Maine (Battleship #10), was commissioned on December 29, 1902, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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