The detail is amazing! It is mounted on a stately wooden base stained and cleared. It measures 24 long 12 inches high and 9 inches wide approximately. The model is built to 1/450th scale. The model weighs 8 pounds. The crate it goes in weighs 7 pounds also. Look the pictures over carefully. An Iowa-class battleship, 887 feet long with a main armament of nine sixteen-inch guns and a top speed of 33 knots, the USS Missouri, “Mighty Mo, ” was launched January 29, 1944 and commissioned June 11, 1944. Navy to be named after the U. Missouri was the last battleship commissioned by the United States and is best remembered as the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which ended World War II. Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. In the Pacific Theater of World War II she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands, and she fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. Missouri received a total of 11 battle stars for service in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and was finally decommissioned on 31 March 1992 after serving a total of 16 years of active service, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register until her name was struck in January 1995. This is a custom built warship model of the USS MISSOURI BB63. It measures 24 long 9 inches high and 5 inches wide approximately. The crate it goes in weighs 7 pounds. 45,000 long tons (46,000 t) light. 57,500 long tons (58,400 t) full load. 887.2 ft (270.4 m). 108.2 ft (33.0 m). 28.9 ft (8.8 m). 32.7 kn (37.6 mph; 60.6 km/h). 14,890 mi (23,960 km). 2,700 officers and men. 9 × 16 in (406 mm)/50 cal Mark 7 guns. 20 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal Mark 12 guns. 80 × 40 mm/56 cal anti-aircraft guns. 49 × 20 mm/70 cal anti-aircraft cannons. Belt: 12.1 in (307 mm). Bulkheads: 14.5 in (368 mm). Barbettes: 11.6 to 17.3 in (295 to 439 mm). Turrets: 19.5 in (495 mm). Main 1.5 in (38 mm). Second 6.0 in (152 mm). 1,851 officers and men. AN/SPS-49 Air Search Radar. AN/SPS-67 Surface Search Radar. AN/SPQ-9 Surface Search / Gun Fire Control Radar. AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Decoy System. 8 × Mark 36 SRBOC Super Rapid Bloom Rocket Launchers. 12 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal Mark 12 guns. 32 × BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles. 4 × 20 mm/76 cal Phalanx CIWS. THIS COMES FROM AN AVID MODEL BUILDER AND COLLECTOR SHOP – PLEASE WATCH OUR AUCTIONS FOR MANY – MANY MORE GREAT MODELS UP NOW & COMING SOON! Continental United States Only. Message us before checkout and let us know if you have any special needs. We will assist you if needed. We check our messages several times a day and will respond promptly. Tailor your auctions with Auctiva’s. Track Page Views With. Auctiva’s FREE Counter. The item “USS MISSOURI (BB63) Custom Built Assembled Wooden Ship Model Highly Detailed” is in sale since Monday, February 26, 2018. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Transportation\Boats & Ships\Military\Models”. The seller is “redscollectibles” and is located in Marshville, North Carolina. This item can be shipped to United States.
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