A Monumental 1:48 Scale Dockyard Model of the 1ST Class Armored Cruiser,H.M.S. Leviathan

摘要

Despite the common practice of using certain ships' names repeatedly over the centuries, only three vessels have borne the name Leviathan during the long history of the Royal Navy; the first was a seventy-four of 1790 and the last a light fleet carrier of 1945 which was never, in fact, completed for sea. Only the second vessel in this trio remotely lived up to the derivation of the name Leviathan-meaning gigantic, impressive, formidable or "anything of huge size" (from the Hebrew livyathan)-and it was the splendid four-funneled armored cruiser which joined the fleet at the dawn of the twentieth century.