Airfix HMS Devonshire Vintage Classic 1:600

Part of the vintage classics range of Airfix kits.  Boxes feature original paintings by an impressive range of artists.

A ship which represented the first of a new breed of vessel for the modern Royal Navy, HMS Devonshire (D02) was the first of the Navy's new County-class Destroyers, which were designed around the Seaslug surface to air missile system.  

A fleet defender designed to knock out high flying enemy aircraft before they could release their stand-off anti-shipping munitions, Devonshire was launched in June 1960 and commissioned in November 1962 and was the first vessel of her type to enter Royal Navy service and first operational RN ship to fire the Seaslug missile.