Scale: 1:24. During the Second World War armed trawlers, used as minesweepers and anti-submarine vessels, played a major role in keeping the coastal waters of Britain safe for Allied shipping. The 750 ton military-class trawler HMS ‘Grenadier’, T334, was added to the fleet in 1942, having been launched in September of that year from the yard of Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, of Beverley. Based on a pre-War design, the trawler was powered by a steam reciprocating engine developing 1000 ihp giving a speed of eleven knots. Her complement was made up of forty officers and men.

This model, made by J Kirby in 1977, shows the ‘Grenadier’ with a single four inch gun mounted on the forecastle, six 20mm anti-aircraft guns, two heavy machine guns, depth charge throwers and depth charges in racks. It is realistically modelled - plated hull, rust-stained upperworks, worn paintwork, and at anchor attached to a mooring buoy. It looks gloomily authentic. HMS ‘Grenadier’ survived the War and in 1946 she was sold to the Great Grimsby and East Coast Steam Fishery Company, who renamed her ‘Isernia’. She was finally broken up for scrap at Hendrik Ido Ambacht, The Netherlands, in 1966.