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1/700 USS Salt Lake City (1945) Stern
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The Pensacola class were two cruisers of the US Navy built in the late 1920s, the first US cruisers designed under Washington Treaty limitations. The ships were therefore limited to a normal displacement of 10,000 tons maximum and main battery calibre could not exceed 8''.
To obtain the necessary speed for fleet scouting role and retain what was thought to be a sufficiently powerful armament to defend against their modern counterparts (ten 8'' guns housed in two triple and two twin turrets), armour was kept at a bare minimum: in fact, Pensacola and Salt Lake City were originally defined as light cruisers because of little protection (maximum of 4'' of armour on the main belt), and were only redesignated heavy cruisers alongside the Northamptons in 1931, following London Naval Treaty practice establishing every cruiser armed with 6.1'' guns and above be defined as heavy cruisers. Paraphrasing naval historian Alexander Clarke, these ships went from good scout cruisers to mediocre heavy cruisers 'by the stroke of a pen'. Their thin armour protection, and in particular the heavy tripod masts in the Pensacolas, made them top-heavy and prone to rolling, one of the reasons why only two ships were built.
Salt Lake City spent the interwar years in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea until 1935, when she joined the Pacific Fleet, mostly showing the flag in South American countries and taking part in a number of fleet exercises.
During the attack on Pearl Harbour the cruiser was 200 nm out attached as escort to USS Enterprise returning from Wake Island. From the start of hostilities, her main role was as screening escort for the carrier task forces, notably participating in the battle of Midway; she was also escorting Wasp when the latter was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine later in the year.
In October Salt Lake City was involved in the battle of Cape Esperance, where a Japanee heavy cruiser was sunk and two others heavily damaged; early in 1943 it was again involved in close quarters action at Guadalcanal, this time at the Komandorski Islands, coming off severely battered.
After repairs, the ship was at sea again in November 1943 for the usual tour of carrier escort and shore bombardment, taking part in most major operations of the island-hopping campaign, being part of the occupation force at the surrender in Ominato Bay. After the obligatory Magic Carpet tour to repatriate veterans, she sailed to Bikini Atoll to be expended in Operation Crossroads, surviving both tests, and scuttled afterwards in 1948.
To obtain the necessary speed for fleet scouting role and retain what was thought to be a sufficiently powerful armament to defend against their modern counterparts (ten 8'' guns housed in two triple and two twin turrets), armour was kept at a bare minimum: in fact, Pensacola and Salt Lake City were originally defined as light cruisers because of little protection (maximum of 4'' of armour on the main belt), and were only redesignated heavy cruisers alongside the Northamptons in 1931, following London Naval Treaty practice establishing every cruiser armed with 6.1'' guns and above be defined as heavy cruisers. Paraphrasing naval historian Alexander Clarke, these ships went from good scout cruisers to mediocre heavy cruisers 'by the stroke of a pen'. Their thin armour protection, and in particular the heavy tripod masts in the Pensacolas, made them top-heavy and prone to rolling, one of the reasons why only two ships were built.
Salt Lake City spent the interwar years in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea until 1935, when she joined the Pacific Fleet, mostly showing the flag in South American countries and taking part in a number of fleet exercises.
During the attack on Pearl Harbour the cruiser was 200 nm out attached as escort to USS Enterprise returning from Wake Island. From the start of hostilities, her main role was as screening escort for the carrier task forces, notably participating in the battle of Midway; she was also escorting Wasp when the latter was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine later in the year.
In October Salt Lake City was involved in the battle of Cape Esperance, where a Japanee heavy cruiser was sunk and two others heavily damaged; early in 1943 it was again involved in close quarters action at Guadalcanal, this time at the Komandorski Islands, coming off severely battered.
After repairs, the ship was at sea again in November 1943 for the usual tour of carrier escort and shore bombardment, taking part in most major operations of the island-hopping campaign, being part of the occupation force at the surrender in Ominato Bay. After the obligatory Magic Carpet tour to repatriate veterans, she sailed to Bikini Atoll to be expended in Operation Crossroads, surviving both tests, and scuttled afterwards in 1948.
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