1/350 USS Oliver Hazard Perry from Academy
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As a follow up to the “heads up” report from Kenny Loup in his Scuttlebutt report of 18 August Academy have released additional information concerning their upcoming release of the 1/350 FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7 . Please join me in viewing this additional information and images. The advised release date and the price has yet to be announced. Watch out for a further update on this model as more information comes to hand.
Kit features:
- Highly detailed and accurate superstructure;
- Two SH-60 anti-submarine helicopters;
- Full hull or waterline option;
- Finely engraved mast and radars.
Ship History
The USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7), lead ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named after Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval hero, who was victorious at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Ordered from Bath Iron Works on the 30th of October 1973 as part of the FY73 program, Oliver Hazard Perry was laid down on the 12th of June 1975, launched on the 25th of September 1976, and commissioned on the 17th of December 1977. She was ordered as PFG-109 but redesignated FFG-7 in the 1975 fleet designation realignment on the 1st of June 1975, before she was laid down. Decommissioned on the 20th of February 1997, in Mayport, FL under the last Commanding Officer, CDR Robert F. Holman, USNR. Stricken on the 3rd of May 1999, Oliver Hazard Perry and scrapped as of December 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the first ship of that name in the U.S. Navy.
The Stark, struck by an Iraqi-launched Exocet missile in the mid-1980s, was a Perry-class frigate.
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Fordboy
Ahoy Shipmates
Academy have called by the news desk and provided an update on their impending 1./350th release.
Check it out!
Link to Item
If you have comments or questions please post them here.
Thanks!
Sean whittman181
That's a sharp looking Frigate. So many models so little $$$$ seabee1526
I'd love for them to include a full hull number jumble to make any of the short hulls. |
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