Today, 30 years ago, on the 25th of February 1991, an Iraqi coastal battery attacked the Allied fleet with two Silkworm (HY-2) anti-ship missiles. One failed, the other was destroyed by HMS
Gloucester and its remains fall close to HMS
London into the sea.
London was the flagship of RN during Operation Granby (Second Gulf War).
London was a Type 22 Batch frigate (Boxer class) and served between 1987 and 1999. 2003, she was sold to Romania and still is serving there as Regina Maria.
As far as I know, there is no 1/700 kit of the Batch 2. Therefore I converted the Orange Hobby kit of
Cornwall (Batch 3). Mainly, the superstructure behind the bridge has to be modified, plus the 4.5" have to replaced by four Exocet launchers plus 30 mm twins and 20 singles have to be added..
with HMS
Brilliant (Batch 1) and HMS
Chatham (Batch 3)
http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php/modelle/112-lars/6150-fregatte-hms-london-1-700-umbau-orange-hobby-von-lars-scharff