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1/700 USS Pensacola (1942) Rear Superstructure
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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.
Pensacola 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.
The ship had departed Hawaii nine days before the start of the Pacific War, the convoy diverting to Australia en route from their destination at Manila after news of the attack.
Her main role was as screening escort for the carrier task forces, notably participating in the battle of Midway as a screen for Enterprise, and briefly went in to assist Yorktown, but the carrier was repeatedly hit and later scuttled. She also escorted Saratoga, Hornet and Wasp when the latter was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine later in the year.
Pensacola was also present at Santa Cruz, rescuing 188 survivors from the sunken Hornet, but in November was attached to a cruiser force and got her turn in one of the many battles for Guadalcanal, the night encounter at Tassafaronga, which proved to be an American blunder against an inferior force. She was hit by a torpedo amidships, one engine room flooding and down three out of four turrets, while ruptured fuel tanks caused a raging blaze. In spite of some ammunition exploding on her quarterdeck due to the intense fire, supreme damage control effort managed to prevent the ship from sinking, and she made in at Tulagi under her own steam.
After repairs that lasted a year, in November 1943 Pensacola was back into action for the usual tour of carrier escort and shore bombardment, taking part in basically all major operations of the island-hopping campaign, anchoring in Ominato bay on 8 September. 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.
Pensacola 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.
The ship had departed Hawaii nine days before the start of the Pacific War, the convoy diverting to Australia en route from their destination at Manila after news of the attack.
Her main role was as screening escort for the carrier task forces, notably participating in the battle of Midway as a screen for Enterprise, and briefly went in to assist Yorktown, but the carrier was repeatedly hit and later scuttled. She also escorted Saratoga, Hornet and Wasp when the latter was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine later in the year.
Pensacola was also present at Santa Cruz, rescuing 188 survivors from the sunken Hornet, but in November was attached to a cruiser force and got her turn in one of the many battles for Guadalcanal, the night encounter at Tassafaronga, which proved to be an American blunder against an inferior force. She was hit by a torpedo amidships, one engine room flooding and down three out of four turrets, while ruptured fuel tanks caused a raging blaze. In spite of some ammunition exploding on her quarterdeck due to the intense fire, supreme damage control effort managed to prevent the ship from sinking, and she made in at Tulagi under her own steam.
After repairs that lasted a year, in November 1943 Pensacola was back into action for the usual tour of carrier escort and shore bombardment, taking part in basically all major operations of the island-hopping campaign, anchoring in Ominato bay on 8 September. 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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