1/254 H347-300 Revell US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle - With Sails
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
Second issue hardbox from about 1960. This issue used the same dramatic box artwork as the original issue 'S' kit and is molded in the same colors - white, light wood tan and dark wood brown. like most early Revell sailing ships, it is very well detailed and molded. Features full hull with display stand, detailed deck fittings and houses, separately masts and yards arms, separately molded belaying pins, realistic deadeye assemblies, lifeboats, Revell's superb preformed rat lines, rigging instructions, rigging material and vacuform billowing sails. The sails are in 'near mint' condition. Never started. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals, color flag sheet and instructions present. While all parts are present, please NOTE that the display stand is broken; the broke part is present and fits back perfectly with no gap. The propeller is missing one blade; that blade is not present. One of part number tags would made the basis of an ideal replacement as is the right color, thickness and even has the right camber. The 295' bark rigged sailing ship was built in 1936 in Bremerhaven, Germany, for the German Navy. It was originally named Horst Vessel. The vessel was acquired in 1946 as a World War II war reparation. The ship was named the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, and has been used ever since as a training ship for future U.S. Coast Guard Officers. Eagle is based in New London, Connecticut.
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