UPC 1/400 Four Masted Bark Kaiwo Maru / Nippon Maru 1930s - General Mills Cereal Premium -Japanese Navy Sailing Training Ship, 5019

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UPC 1/400 Four Masted Bark Kaiwo Maru / Nippon Maru 1930s - General Mills Cereal Premium -Japanese Navy Sailing Training Ship, 5019 plastic model kit

1/400 5019 UPC Four Masted Bark Kaiwo Maru / Nippon Maru 1930s - General Mills Cereal Premium -Japanese Navy Sailing Training Ship

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG

From the 1960s and still in the original General Mills labeled shipping box. Inside is a nice small scale four masted sailing ship molded in red, white, yellow and black plastic to minimize painting. Features full hull or waterline option, good deck fitting detail, separately molded yards and masts, premolded rat lines, billowing vac sails, display stand, sail diagram and detailed rigging diagram. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions. The two sister ships were built in Kobe and launched in 1930. They were both steel four-masted barques carrying royals over double top and topgallant sails. They served as school ships for the Japanese merchant marine. After WWII, they carried demobilized soldiers home, and up to 1951 made dozens of trips to Asia and the Pacific. In 1952, they worked to collect the remains of Japanese war dead from the South Pacific. The ships were replaced in 1989.

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