Published by the Polish publisher JSC, the kit builds a 1:400 scale waterline model of the Cunard cruise liner, Caronia, known as the Green Goddess.

Launched on 30^th. October 1947 at John Brown’s Clydebank shipyard, the Cunard liner, RMS Caronia was designed as a cruise ship, Cunard already having the three liners, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Mauretania for the Transatlantic run. Instead of the customary black hull, she was painted green which was easier to maintain in the Tropics, as well as being easy on the eye. She acquired the nickname of “Green Goddess” after the green and white “Green Goddess” trams of Liverpool. Unusually, she also had only one, large funnel. She was a luxurious ship with an outdoor swimming pool and every cabin being en-suite. She was a very hospitable ship with passengers returning year after year, the only limitation being the size of their wallets!

Although a cruise ship, she served her first two years on the transatlantic run, before heading for warmer waters. At the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953, she served as a floating hotel for some of the guests. In 1958, she had a serious accident when trying to avoid a collision with a US Navy ship in Yokohama harbour. Although she was proceeding slowly to avoid the other ship, the wind pushed her onto a breakwater and she damaged a lighthouse. It was found that her large funnel had been the cause of the accident as it had acted as a giant sail. Nevertheless, she was repaired in Japan and continued cruising.  New cruise ships presented the Caronia with new competition in the 1960s and she was modernised in the middle of the decade with a new lido deck and outdoor pool. These improvements did not, however, arrest the decline in passenger numbers and she was taken out of service by Cunard in 1968, her last voyage was as her maiden voyage in 1949, namely New York to Southampton. Plans to turn her into a floating hotel in Dubrovnik fell through and she was sold to Star Shipping, an American/Panamanian company, and renamed Columbia. The new owners arrived on board with a suitcase containing $1.5 million cash to pay for their new purchase! She subsequently changed hands yet again and was renamed Caribia and was painted white. She continued to cruise, but in February 1969, following an engine room explosion, she managed to reach New York. Her cruising days were over and, following sale for scrap, she began the journey under tow to Taiwan in April 1974. During a storm near Guam, the tug towing her was damaged and, unable to continue towing her, cut her adrift. Caronia/Caribia drifted onto the breakwater at the port of Apra in Guam. The ship broke into three pieces and sank on 14^th. August 1974. As she was blocking the harbour entrance, she had to be quickly removed. Unfortunately, she was found to have settled beside the wreck of a Korean War era landing craft loaded with tons of ammunition. Thus, before dealing with the Caronia, the ammunition had to be removed. As Apra is the only deep-water harbour on Guam, until the work was carried, the import of vital supplies to the island was impeded.

Thus ended the career of this beautiful ship, 25 years after she was commissioned.

The parts for the model, which has a length of about 21 inches, are printed on 12 sheets of A4 card, together a sheet of signal flags.

The kit has good construction diagrams and English instructions, 

The modeller cuts out the pieces, scores, bends, folds and curves them into the right shape before gluing them together. The result is a proper 3-D scale model.