St. Roch 1:72

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Description: Supply ship of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Roch sailed from Vancouver on the Pacific coast in 1940 for a reconnaissance voyage to the Arctic waters washing the northern shores of Canada. Due to severe ice conditions, she spent two full winters frozen in ice before sailing to Halifax on the Atlantic coast on October 11, 1942. St. Roch thus became the first ship to pass through the Northwest Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic. In the summer of 1944, when he sailed in the opposite direction, he became the first vessel to subdue the Northwest Passage in both directions. And in 1950, St. Roch became the first ship to circumnavigate North America, even in stages, as he sailed from Halifax across the Panama Canal to Vancouver.

St. Roch was built in 1928 at the Burrard Dry Dock Company in Vancouver; you can now visit it at the Maritime Museum there. St. Roch is designed for intermediate shipbuilders; is designed as a non-floating desktop mockup.

St. Roch has a fuselage of classic wooden construction from laser-cut parts with a plank plating, a wooden deck and a superstructure. The kit contains all the wooden and plastic parts needed to complete the model, mock-up accessories (eg position lights, anchor, propeller, etc.).