What are the "must have" ships?

Mighty Mo WWII the Enterprise CVN-65 and NJ modern

Ahhh....great question...is this personally, or historically?

Historically, you need the following:

Viking Longboat
Wasa
USS Constitution
HMS Victory
Flying Fish
Thermoplyae (sp)
Cutty Sark
Titanic
Lusitania
Bismarck
Hood
Yamato
Arizona
Missouri
Enterprise (CVN-65)
Type VII U-boat
Gato
Liberty Ship
T-2 tanker
PT Boat
QEII
Queen Mary
SS America or United States

Now....personally...in addition to those listed above...

HMS Repulse
IJN Takao
IJN Myoko
USS Indianapolis
USS Juneau/Atlanta
USS Fletcher
Edmund Fitzgerald
Bremen
Prinz Eugen
Vittorio Venetto
Jean Bart/Richelieu
Flying Fish
USS Maine
HMS Dreadnought

My two pence,

Jeff

One or two additions to Jeff's historical list would include USS Monitor and probably CSS Virginia (AKA Merrimac).

Oh boy, did I ever drop the ball there!! Of course...Monitor and Virginia, and probably the Fulton...and of course, Noah's Ark...I wonder if the Navy still has blueprints of her??

Jeff

How about the IJN MIkasa?

And how 'bout some Italian battleships (I love their sleek lines), like the Vittorio Veneto?

this one would have to be scractch built dont think they make a kit but i would have to add the navys first sub the uss alagator she got her name because she was painted green.

USRC Harriet Lane, fired the first naval shot of the Civil War
USRC Miami, carried President Abraham Lincoln and his party to Fort Monroe in May 1862, preparatory to the Peninsular Campaign.
USRC Hudson In the action off Cardenas on 11 May 1898, the cutter Hudson, Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb commanding, sustained the fight against Spanish gunboats and shore batteries side by side with the torpedo boat U.S.S. Winslow. When half of Winslow’s crew had been killed and its commander wounded, Hudson rescued the torpedo boat from certain destruction. In recognition of this act of heroism, Congress authorized a gold medal for Lieutenant Newcomb, a silver medal for each of the officers, and a bronze medal for the enlisted members of the crew.

USCGC NORTHLAND:On 12 September, the cutter Northland,operating in Greenland, took into "protective custody" the Norwegian trawler Boskoe and captured three German radiomen ashore. Boskoe was the United States’ first captured vessel of World War II.

Higgins boat, either the LCP or LCVP. USCG Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro was in charge of a group of LCP's abd LCT's that rescued some of Chesty Puller's Marines at Guadalcanal. Munro is the only Coastie to receive the Medal of Honor - see http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/Munro%20Index.html .


Others are listed at the USCG Historians site, under [url][http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_CGatwar.html/url]

For me it's the USS Olympia & USS Maine.

Great list, CG Bob!

To it, I'd add:
The Revenue Cutter Bear, "Iron MIke" Healey's famous Alaskan Cutter.
The USCGC Eagle (I've got six in my collection- 1/600 Heller, 1/350 Imai, 1/350 Minicraft, 1/253 Revell (2 copies), 1/200 Imai.)

-Bill

without the six 1:350 kits i allready have, i want badly IJN Mutsu or Nagato, IJN Takao, RN Vittorio Veneto, HMS Hood, Prinz Eugen, Richelieu and some smaller ships too.
Just more these ones and i'm happy. (i think).

How about HMS Dreadnaught?
Is there any commercially available kits of the battleship?
crayfish

There's a nice 1/700 Dreadnought from Combrig, a Russian company that makes well-detailed - and surprisingly inexpensive - resin kits. A Combrig kit dressed up with aftermarket parts from a company like Gold Medal, White Ensign, or Tom's Modelworks has the potential to be a terrific model. I suspect at least one of the resin companies has also done a Dreadnought on a larger scale at some time or other. A good place to shop is the Steel Navy website, www.steelnavy.com .

It could easily be argued that the Dreadnought is, from the historical standpoint, the biggest gap in the plastic ship kit industry. For that matter, there's always been a shortage of World War I capital ship kits. (Three cheers for ICM's German battlecruisers; may there be more kits like them.) It's a shame there aren't more. They make spectacular models - and no class of warships has ever had a bigger impact on history.

Jeff,

A good classic "must have" list but I can't believe that you didn't include the Gloucester fishing schooners or the New England whalers. Prime examples of historical American work boats, and beautiful models.

Al Blevins

http://www.steelnavy.com/SN%20Dreadnought%20JB.htm
jtilley,
Thanks for the link. Lots of good looking shipping there (sigh...if only I had some talent too).
crayfish

*realizes he is going out on a limb, again*

What about merchant shipping that helped us win the war, specifically a Victory ship in 1/350 scale?

QUOTE: Originally posted by smokinguns3 this one would have to be scractch built dont think they make a kit but i would have to add the navys first sub the uss alagator she got her name because she was painted green.

Regia Marina manufactures a 1/700 kit, check it out at steelnavy: http://www.steelnavy.com/RMVVenetoJS.htm

I don't know what to think about all those flashy yellow colors you see on this kit, though...

Hey, you guys all forgot USS Enterprise (CV-6) the most decorated ship in history and namesake of CVN-65.

Especially if you go for the "1/48 CVN-65 Enterprise with a full flight deck", which should be " about 23' 4.75" long and 5' 2.5" tall"...

My favorites are The Big "E" and Little "E"
USS Enterprise CV-6
USS England DE-635 (Buckley class)

All good choices! I go a big vote for Noah's Ark, too!

One vessel I have always found interesting though, is the WWII Japanese B-1 I-25 submarine. It was the first to create a stir along the west coast of the Continental US, and had the unusual (to me) feature of carrying an aircraft in its hold for running its mini-bombing runs. It stirred trouble all about the Pacific Theater before being put to an end. http://www.portorfordlifeboatstation.org/article1.html

Jeff I'm surprised by your overlooking the USS Nautilus SSN 571 in your Historic Ship list.. This ship was to ships what the jet motor was to aviation.

OH I forgot my must have list..
Accurate plastic US Fleet Boat in any scale.
New PT Boat in 1/72 scale ( Higgins)
USS Parche SSN 683 in 1/350
USS Jimmy Carter SSN 23 in 1/350

Hi Paulnchamp the Big E may have been the most decorated US Navy ship in WW2. I'm pretty sure the New Jersey has her beat as well as the Mighty Mo ( More Wars LOL) But I do know the USS Parche SSN 683 was the most decorated US Navy ship ever...she was retired last November...

Any WW2 warship collection should include a British/Commonwealth Flower class corvette.

[Note: "Corvette" was a type of ship long before it was used for a car.]

Smaller than a USN "destroyer escort" "DE", the Flower class escorted convoys through the North Atlantic, shouldering the brunt of the submarine war.

SMS Seydlitz, von der Tann, Konig and Grosser Kurfurst ... and USS Gearing (Pre-FRAM)

Guys,
Some kicka** ships up here let me augment with some modern must-haves:

SOVREMY (SP) Class Destroyer
Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer

-Malibuswo

About the only other WW 2 ships I can add is CV-9 Essex, and any of the CVE's, DD's or
DE's from Taffy 3 in the battle of Leyte Gulf.

I'm going to add a few:

USS Maryland, survived PH, served the entire war and was engaged at Surigao.
USS WeeVee, see above.
Any of the New Orleans class cruisers, tough ships and last of the Treaty Cruisers.
CVE's, tough little ships that served in both oceans.
USS Johnston, Hoel, Heerman and Samuel B. Roberts.....the Japs though they were BB's and cruisers form the ferocity of their attack.
One of the Russian round ships, simply as an example of weird and really bad ideas.
BB-55, the first fast BB.
Balao and Balao guppy boats.....good long service.