Billing Boats BB512 1:100 HMS Warrior -Wooden hull Kit 437172Warrior was designed and built in response to an aggressive French shipbuilding programme which saw the introduction of the first iron clad warship La Gloire designed by the brilliant naval architect Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lome. Determined to see off this challenge to the supremacy of the Royal Navy the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir John Somerset Pakington, determined to build a ship so superior in terms of quality, speed, size,