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Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 10:13 AM UTC
Niko Models announces two new 1/700 resin ship kits, the USS Hull and the Armored Cruiser USS Maryland.
Niko Models expands their 1/700 ship line with two very nice kits.
US Navy Destroyer Hull DD-350(Farragut class, 1944 ~ Retail price - 40.00
US Navy Armored Cruiser USS Maryland ACR-8 (1898 ~ Retail price - 67.00
US Navy Destroyer Hull DD-350(Farragut class, 1944 ~ Retail price - 40.00
US Navy Armored Cruiser USS Maryland ACR-8 (1898 ~ Retail price - 67.00
- USS Hull, a 1395-ton Farragut class destroyer built by the New York Navy Yard, was commissioned in January 1935. She made a shakedown cruise to the western coast of Europe in mid-year and transited the Panama Canal to take station in the Pacific in October. From then until 1939, Hull participated in U.S. Fleet exercises and training operations, steaming north to Alaska and west to Hawaii on occasion. Her base was shifted to Pearl Harbor in October 1939. She was moored there during the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack that opened the Pacific War.
During the war's first months Hull escorted the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific and carried out convoy escort missions between the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii. In August 1942 she took part in the invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi and was involved in the emerging Guadalcanal Campaign over the next two months. Hull served as a battleship escort in the South Pacific in late 1942 and early 1943. In April 1943 she went to the North Pacific, where she participated in the Kiska landings in August. The destroyer then returned to the much warmer Central Pacific to take part in raids on Japanese-held islands and, during November 1943, in the Gilberts Campaign.
Hull's next combat operation was the invasion of the Marshall Islands in late January and February 1944. Over the next several months she was a participant in raids on enemy bases in the Marshalls and Carolines, the Saipan and Guam invasions and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. A West Coast shipyard overhaul occupied her during August-October 1944. She then steamed across the Pacific, joining the Third Fleet's underway logistics forces in November. When her fueling group encountered a typhoon off the Philippines on 18 December 1944, Hull was overwhelmed by the violent winds and seas, capsized and sank. The tragedy took the lives of more than two hundred men, about three-quarters of her crew.
USS Hull was named in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull (1773-1843), a signficant Naval commander during and after the War of 1812. - USS Maryland, a 13,680 ton Pennsylvania class armored cruiser built at Newport News, Virginia, was placed in commission in mid-April 1905. She served in the western Atlantic and Caribbean until September 1906, then began a long voyage to the Far East by way of the U.S. Pacific Coast and Hawaii. Maryland operated with the Asiatic Fleet until October 1907 and, after returning to California, was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. For the next nine years she cruised along the West Coast from Alaska to Central America, with occasional voyages to Hawaii and one trip, in mid-1912, to Japan. The ship's name was changed to Frederick in November 1916, freeing the name Maryland for assignment to a new battleship.
In April 1917, soon after the U.S. entered World War I, Frederick steamed from California to the South Atlantic, where she patrolled until early 1918. The cruiser then began convoy escort duty between the United States and Europe. After the fighting ended in November 1918, she was employed as a troop transport, bringing servicemen home from Europe. This duty ended in mid-1919, and Frederick was placed in reduced commission. In 1920 she returned to active service, took the U.S. Olympic Team to Belgium and, in July, made a training cruise. In that month, as the Navy implemented its hull numbering system, she was designated CA-8. Frederick returned to the Pacific late in 1920 to become flagship of the Pacific Fleet Train. She was decommissioned in mid-February 1922 and laid up at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. Stricken from the list of Navy ships in November 1929, the ship was sold for scrapping in February 1930.
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