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USS Du Pont DD-941

a photo feature by Carl Musselman
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"MSW Crew-mate Carl Musselman (CarlOmaha) sends us a fine gallery of images of his latest Destroyer, this time, the USS Du Pont DD-941!"



the vessel...
USS DuPont (DD-941), named for Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont USN (1809–1866), was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine and launched by Mrs. H. B. Du Pont, great-great-grandniece of Rear Admiral Du Pont; and commissioned 1 July 1957, Commander W. J. Maddocks in command.

Namesake: Samuel Francis Du Pont
Ordered: July 30, 1954
Builder: Bath Iron Works
Laid down: 11 May 1955
Launched: 8 September 1956
Acquired: June 21, 1957
Commissioned: 1 July 1957
Decommissioned: 4 March 1983
Struck: 1 June 1990
Fate: Sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking Limited at Brownsville in Texas on 10 February 1999

General characteristics
Displacement: 2,800 tons standard, 4,050 tons full load.
Length: 407 ft (124 m) waterline, 418 ft (127 m) overall.
Beam: 45 ft (13.7 m)
Draft: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion: 4 x 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) Foster-Wheeler boilers, General Electric steam turbines; 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 x shafts.
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement: 15 officers, 218 enlisted.
Armament: 3 x 5 in (127 mm)/54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 x 3 in (76 mm)/50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 x mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 x 12.75 in (324 mm) Mark 32 torpedo tubes

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the model...
Carl used JAG Collectives 1/700 scale, full resin kit, #JAG003, USS Forrest Sherman, as a base kit. Click here to see more about this fine JAG product.
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About the Author

About Carl Musselman (CarlOmaha)
FROM: NEBRASKA, UNITED STATES

I just got back into building models in November 2007. Ships, this time. It has been about 8 years since I was actively modeling. Since I was a kid, I have built cars, planes, armor, ships, submarines, and wooden ship models. I am currently building a collection of 1/700 post WWII/Modern USN surf...


Comments

Karybdis
Nice and clean. Beautiful water! Wow!
SEP 12, 2008 - 04:42 AM
MrMox
great build and nice photoes, its good to get some closeups of such a nice model! Cheers
SEP 12, 2008 - 09:34 AM
jba
Very clean and crisp build -not to mention outstanding picture taking
SEP 12, 2008 - 11:08 PM
skipper
Excellent Carl Thanks for sharing it Rui
SEP 15, 2008 - 05:09 AM
CarlOmaha
Thank you all for the nice compliments. I'm pretty proud of this one. I'm thinking about taking it to the contest in KC on October 4th. Rui's Forrest Sherman was one a few excellent Forrest Sherman models that I found valuable references as I built mine. I've come up with a steady techinique of taking photos of my models. I don't know which I like better; looking at the real models or the photos of them. Mark Smith (Gunny) has a great format on this web site for displaying photos.
SEP 15, 2008 - 07:36 PM
JMartine
Excellent build! crisp build, and yet again, love the water and GREAT photogrpahs! thnks for sharing and good luck in the contest doc!
SEP 17, 2008 - 03:33 PM
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