Zuiho...

Bismarck

KGV

Nagato

Yamato

USS Missouri

Roma

Richelieu

Warspite

Prinz Eugen

Bismarck

Some Type VII U-boat (U-47?? what was the "most" significant?)

Hood

Warspite

Akagi

Yamato

Enterprisise

Essex

Arizona

You guys are not giving enough credit to the amphibious navy that won the war. There are kits for many of the ships and boats.

APA -Montrose by Revell

LSD - by Lundberg (I believe)

LCVP - Italeri

LCM - Italeri

LCU

Amphibious Truck

My first list was must haves, but if I were to get for myself:

Scharnhorst

Prinz Eugen

Bismarck

Takao

Soryu

Indianapolis

Maryland

Lexington CV-3

Hood

Everybody seems to be going with the big guns.  I prefer the smaller ships.

1.  Elco 80' PT

2. S-100 clas Schnellboot

3.  Fairmile D

Yes, three patrol boats for getting up close and personal.

4.  LCVP

5.  AKIZUKI class destroyer

6.  NARVIK class destroyer

7. 205' ATF fleet tug

8.  USCG 327' SECRETARY Class - TANEY was at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7; later carried four 5"/38 in single turrets.  Others in the class hunted U-boats in the Atlantic.

9.  PCE/PCER - 174' Patrol Craft Escorts

yamato

iowa class

hood

bismark

theyr the 4 absolute must haves the rest of the list gets a bit gray. im english so im biased that way

repulse

prince of wales

warspite (great name and a great history)

type vii uboat

arizona

that would be my 9

i wish theyd make a 350 scale ww2 ark royal mainly because my grandad was on her when she sunk (technically he got off a few minutes before but you know what i mean lol)

1. USS Enterprise CV6 - Beaten the oddsand I always liked the looks of the Yorktown class.

2. USS Saratoga CV3 - Always in the background or on the sidelines.

3. HMS Glowworm - The last act of defiance.

4. HMS Warsprite - Just because it was old and British

5. IJNS Taiho - Floating bomb with an armored flightdeck and looked like an Essex through a periscope.

6. IJNS Shinano - Result when engineering is trumped by politics

7. Prinz Eugen - Another ship that seemed to beat the odds and had nice lines.

8. Gneisenau - Got the kit real cheap

9. PT73

I'll try to stick to the rules this time...lol

1. Bismarck

2. Hood

3. King George V-class

4. Yamato

5. Essex-class

6. Enterprise

7. Arizona

8. Iowa-class

9. Vittorio Veneto

1. Yamato

2. Bismark

3. Tirpitz

4. Hood

5. All 4 Iowa class Battleships

6. Akagi

7. Fletcher class destroyer

8. Essex class aircraft carrier

9. Gato class submarine

10. Soryu

11. USS Gambier Bay

Sorry-that's 11!

Manstein's revenge

1. Gato class US submarine

2. Type VII class German U-boat

3. Yorktown class US carrier

4. Akagi

5. Yamato

6. Bismarck

7. Fletcher class US destroyer

8. Iowa class US battleship

9. King George V class British battleship

...what ...no Zuiho????

1. USS Enterprise, CV-6

2. Gato Class Fleet Boats

3. Flower Class Corvettes

4. HMS Warspite

5. HIJMS Zuikaku

6. Kagero Class destroyers

7. Type VII Class U-Boats

8. DKM Scharhorst

9. HMS Illustrious

Historical Significance List

1. Brooklyn Class Cruiser – held the line in the Solomons, design basis for Wichita, Clevelands and Baltimores
2. Northhampton / Portland Class Cruiser  - Treaty cruisers took the place of BBs after Pearl Harbor and carried the Atomic Bomb
3. Type VII U-Boat – nearly a war winner, model for Soviet cold war strategy
4. Gato Class Submarine – systematically strangled the Japanese Empire
5. Essex Class Carrier – war winner in the Pacific, model for US cold war strategy
6. Takao Class Cruiser – pivotal in early Japanese victories, excellent gunnery and packed long lance torpedoes
7. Fletcher Class Destroyer – jack of all trades
8. Kagero Class Destroyer – long lances ruled the waves for the first year of the war!
9. HMS Onlsow – another triumph of torpedoes (or the threat thereof) over heavy cruisers – and how about a Victoria Cross!

Coolness List

1. Yamato
2. Takao Class Cruiser
3. Graf Spee
4. Alaska
5. I-400
6. Type XXI U-Boat
7. Iowa Class BB
8. Surcouf  
9. Tribal Class Destroyer - "it's like driving a Bentley, afterwards, nothing else is quite the same"

1 - Arizona

2 - North Carolina-class BB (both NC and Washington played substantial roles throughout war)

3 - Bismark

4 -Yamato

5 - Gato-class submarine

6 - Fletcher-class destroyer

7 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

8 - U-boat

9 - Yorktown-class carrier 

New Orleans Class cruisers. They formed the heavy front line of gun ships in the first year of the Pacific war, fought at point blank range with the Japanese battleships at Savo island, were horribly bloodied but covered themselves in valor.

CA-38 was the second most decorated ship of the war. CA-32 and CA-36 were third/ fourth.

Incredibly good looking, without those ugly tripod masts, and a jaunty raked bow and stacks.

Trumpeter's San Francisco is a fine model.

I'm nominating the under-appreciated Flower Class Corvette and Liberty Ships - those convoys won the European war...

Manstein's revenge

1. Gato class US submarine

2. Type VII class German U-boat

3. Yorktown class US carrier

4. Akagi

5. Yamato

6. Bismarck

7. Fletcher class US destroyer

8. Iowa class US battleship

9. King George V class British battleship

Sorry, but I have to ask- where is the Zuiho??? Would she have been number ten?

1. Gato class US submarine

2. Type VII class German U-boat

3. Yorktown class US carrier

4. Akagi

5. Yamato

6. Bismarck

7. Fletcher class US destroyer

8. Iowa class US battleship

9. King George V class British battleship

Iowa,Gato,Essex,Bismarck,Type VII,Akagi,Yamato,Hood