American to WW2

A 1/1250 scale metal model of USS Wyoming as an AA training ship in 1944 by Neptun 1309A

Converted from a Fleet Collier, she was the first aircraft carrier with transverse arrestor wires.

A 1/1250 scale model of USS Commencement Bay by Navis Neptun 1320.

The Commencement Bays were a development of the Sangamons having the tanker hulls, uprated power plants and the island similar to the Saipans. The longer flight deck enabled them to be used with aircraft introduced after WW2 and Commencement Bay herself remained in the US Navy until 1971.

Neat model to usual Navis high standard of a typical US escort carrier.

Built in 1939 as Rio de la Plata for Moore-McCormack Line and converted to an escort carrier, she was commissioned as HMS Charger under the Lease-Lend Agreement in March 1942. After service in the Royal Navy, she was returned to the United States and became USS Charger in December 1942 and served as a training carrier for the rest of the war. In 1948, she was bought by V-ships and became the Fairsea running from Naples to Melbourne for the Sitmar Line until 1969.

A one off design that lead to the development of the Baltimore class.

 

The members of this class had an active war and were sold on to minor navies afterwards. General Belgrano (ex-Phoenix) was sunk by HMS Conqueror in 1982!

Navis capture the spirit of these small US Navy escort destroyers quite well. Rudderow was a 24 knot speed, 1450 ton displacement ship that was armed with 2 x 5" main guns guns, a 'hedgehog' forward throwing anti submarine mortar plus a number of smaller cannons and machine guns.

The Benson class were built in two forms. Livermore was the name ship of the heavier (by 50 tons) version and she is modelled as built in 1941.

One of the larger ships designed to land directly on the beaches with mechanised armour.

A 1/1250 scale secondhand metal model of USS Dobbin AD.3 by Navis Neptun 1390 in excellent condition.

Dobbin operated as a repair ship for a flotilla of Destroyers into WW2.

Overall length of model 12cm

The flagship of Admiral Don P. Moon on D-Day and manned by the USCG, she served as an Attack Transport, Hospital Ship and Command Ship off the beaches until 25th June.

Prohibition may have been the reason that the 10 ships of this class were built but they came in useful as convoy escorts in WW2.

This destroyer was originally mastered using rapid prototype technology - directly from computer 3-D drawings.