 | USS California BB-44 1941 05783 | | Model:05783 | | The proportional model:1:700 | | Browse the number:11077 |
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USS CALIFORNIA (BB-44), the
second of two Tennessee Class turbo-electric battleships, was laid down on
October 25th 1916, launched on November 20th 1919 and commissioned on August
10th 1921. At the time, CALIFORNIA was the
largest warship built at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California.
In the raid on Pearl Harbor
on December 7th 1941 CALIFORNIA
was sunk by Japanese torpedo action. Following the crew’s successful efforts
that prevented capsize, CALIFORNIA was
refloated on March 25th 1942 and made for Puget Sound
ship yard for rehabilitation and modernisation, completed by January 1944. With
sister Tennessee, CALIFORNIA
participated in the invasions of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in June and July 1944,
and in the Mariana and Palau
islands invasions from June to November 1944. Tennessee
collided with CALIFORNIA in the Pacific on
August 23rd 1944, both ships sustaining damage, with fatalities on CALIFORNIA. The naval
Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 saw the sister ships in action again.
On January 6th 1945 CALIFORNIA was
struck by ‘Kamikaze’ plane during the Lingayen Gulf campaign and returned to Puget Sound for repairs. CALIFORNIA
was back in action in the western Pacific at Okinawa in June 1945, remaining in
the East China Sea on minesweeping duty. CALIFORNIA supported the Allied occupation forces in Japan until October 1945 before returning home
to Philadelphia PA. CALIFORNIA
was decommissioned in February 1947 and sold for scrap in July 1959.
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Item No
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05783
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Item
Name
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USS California BB-44
1941
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Bar Code
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9580208057835
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Scale
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1:700
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Item Type
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Plastic Model
Warship Kit
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Model Brief
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Length: 272.2mm Beam: 43.4mm
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Total Parts
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430+
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Metal Parts
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n/a
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Photo Etched Parts
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1 piece
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Film Parts
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n/a
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Resin Parts
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n/a
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Total Sprues
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14 sprues, upper
hull, lower hull, water line plate, decks and stand
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Released Date
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2015-11
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More Features
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Lower hull & upper hull made from
multi-directional slide moulds.
- Either full hull version or
waterline version can be selected.
- Deck wood pattern finely
rendered
- Contains two OS2U plane
- Contains display stand and
engraved name plate
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