NUOTIE 1/1250 RMS Lusitania Ocean Liner Diecast Model with Display Base

Product Overview

This 1:1250 model shows RMS Lusitania in her peacetime Cunard colours: black hull, white superstructure, warm yellow-toned decks, and the four vermilion-orange funnels with black tops that marked her out from every rival on the North Atlantic run. At this scale the model comes out to about 25.5 cm (10 in) long and sits on a red wood-finish display base with a gold "RMS LUSITANIA" nameplate.

Key Features

• 1/1250 scale, about 25.5 cm (10 in) long, 2.5 cm (1 in) wide and 7 cm (2.8 in) tall on the base
• Diecast ABS hull painted in peacetime Cunard livery: black hull, white superstructure, yellow-toned decks
• Four vermilion-orange funnels with black tops, deckhouses and ventilators moulded in
• Gold propellers and centre rudder at the stern
• Red wood-finish display base with a gold "RMS LUSITANIA" nameplate

The Ship

Lusitania entered service for Cunard in September 1907 and promptly took the Blue Riband, the fastest crossing of the Atlantic; her sister Mauretania took the record from her in 1909 and held it for two decades. Together the two sisters were Cunard's answer to the German speed records of the day. On 7 May 1915, on a crossing from New York to Liverpool, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 off the Old Head of Kinsale and sank in eighteen minutes; 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard died. The loss shocked neutral America and helped bring the United States into the war two years later.

On the Shelf

The HMT Mauretania model sits directly beside her in this series — the same sistership lines, painted as she looked in the war she never survived. For the other side of the era, the RMS Titanic model shows White Star's answer to the Cunard pair in the same scale, and the SS Normandie model carries the speed-liner story forward two decades.

An Honest Note on Scale

Lusitania herself was about 240 m long, so a strict 1/1250 hull would run just over 19 cm; this model stretches to 25.5 cm, a touch large for the scale but consistent across the series. At 1/1250 she is a display piece rather than a loupe subject: the funnel colour, deck lines and black hull read clearly at arm's length, which is what carries the identity here. The hull is diecast ABS with painted detailing — light in the hand — so the base does the anchoring. The masts are slender castings; dust with a soft brush rather than a cloth.