Here are photographs of 1:1200 scale warships scratch-built by James D.
Gray. First is the Royal Navy battleship HMS
Hood, which is one of the final designs of the turret ship
concept. The barbette design finally became the standard design for battleships,
first with open guns and then with armored gun-houses that were then called
turrets. Also from the Royal Navy is a selection of pre-1900 British destroyers,
which were only slightly larger than the torpedo boats, which they were designed
to catch. The major nemesis for the Royal Navy during this period, as with the
prior 200 years, was the navy of France. Mr. Gray has two delightful battleships
from the Marine Nationale of La Belle France, Hoche,
as built, and Jaureguiberry.
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