My Grandfather was in the Merchant navy and was sunk twice in the second world war, the first time he was picked up by HMS Scate which he described pretty accurately as the oldest RN destroyer in WW2, the second time by a Flower Class Corvete HMS Peony.
He was also sunk once in WW1 but we don't know the details.
He would have loved to see a model of this class of vessel. He described these vessels to my mother as the most beautiful ships he had ever seen. I can understand why in the circumstances