Kombrig Models sends us news of three Drake class warriors of World War I. Relive the great battles on the high seas with the 1/700 HMS Drake, Good Hope and Leviathan. Each kit comes includes photo etch and retails for $48.00

Drake Class. Enlarged Cressy class with higher speed and more 6 inch guns although some of them were still mounted too low and so were of limited use in anything except a dead calm. The amount of structure amidships such as ventilation cowls was reduced in an effort to reduce the target size of the ship.

World War 1 Service:
Drake
6th Cruiser Squadron Grand Fleet.
October 1915 Refit.
1916 North America and West Indies Station mainly as a convoy escort.
2 October 1917 Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U79 near Rathlin Sound Northern Ireland.


Good Hope
6th Cruiser Squadron.
South Atlantic as Flagship of Rear-Admiral Craddock in hunt for Admiral Graf Spee.
1 November 1914 sunk at the Battle of Coronel.


Leviathan
6th Cruiser Squadron Grand Fleet.
December 1914 5th Cruiser Squadron.
January 1915 6th Cruiser Squadron.
October 1915 North America and West Indies Station as flagship.
1920 Sold for scrap.