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A Fine Scale Model Of The Fletcher Class Destroyer U.S.S. Nicholas Pennant No. 449

FINE ART MODELS; AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY

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A Fine Scale Model Of The Fletcher Class Destroyer U.S.S. Nicholas Pennant No. 449
Fine Art Models; American, 20th century
modeled in 1/96 scale in her original configuration, based on plans from the Bath Iron Works in Maine. The hull is pre-formed from resin and painted with a red bottom, black waterline and grey topsides. The deck is also painted grey with black painted details which includes: anchor, anchor chains and windlass, bollards, chocks, lifelines and superstructure, mainmast with radar screens, range finders, antennas, depth-charge racks and quintuple torpedo tubes, floater nets in their baskets, fire hoses in their storage racks, searchlights, 5-5" guns, bofors, anti-aircraft guns, life rafts, whale boats on davits, brass propellers, rudders, and numerous other details. Displayed on keel blocks on a mahogany base with a glass cover.
16½ x 53 in. (41.9 x 134.6 cm.) cased

拍品專文

U.S.S. Nicholas, DD449, was built at Maine's Bath Iron Works, the USS Nicholas was the first of 175 2,100-ton Fletchers to be launched and commissioned and, 27 years later, one of the last to be retired from the US Navy. The "Nick" served in World War II as flagship of Destroyer Squadron 21, with which she earned 16 battle stars. For action in the Solomon Islands in 1943 she also received a Presidential Unit Citation. Mothballed and then modified in both 1950 (DDE) and 1960 (FRAM), Nicholas completed fourteen more Western Pacific deployments and saw action off both Korea (5 battle stars and a Korean Presidential Unit Citation Badge) and Vietnam (9 stars). The navy's oldest active destroyer from 1962, she also participated in the Apollo 7 and 8 spacecraft recovery missions before being retired in 1970 and scrapped.