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USS CALIFORNIA (BB-44), the second of two Tennessee Class turbo-electric battleships, was laid down on October 25th, 1916, launched on November 20th, 1919, and commissioned on August 10th, 1921. At the time, CALIFORNIA was the largest warship built at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California.
In the raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, CALIFORNIA was sunk by Japanese torpedo action. Following the crew’s successful efforts that prevented capsize, CALIFORNIA was refloated on March 25th, 1942, and made for Puget Sound shipyard for rehabilitation and modernization, completed by January 1944. With sister Tennessee, CALIFORNIA participated in the invasions of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in June and July 1944, and in the Mariana and Palau islands invasions from June to November 1944. Tennessee collided with CALIFORNIA in the Pacific on August 23rd, 1944, both ships sustaining damage, with fatalities on CALIFORNIA. The naval Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 saw the sister ships in action again.
On January 6th, 1945, CALIFORNIA was struck by ‘Kamikaze’ plane during the Lingayen Gulf campaign and returned to Puget Sound for repairs. CALIFORNIA was back in action in the western Pacific at Okinawa in June 1945, remaining in the East China Sea on minesweeping duty. CALIFORNIA supported the Allied occupation forces in Japan until October 1945 before returning home to Philadelphia PA. CALIFORNIA was decommissioned in February 1947 and sold for scrap in July 1959.
Item No 05783
Item Name USS California BB-44 1941
Bar Code 9580208057835
Scale 1:700
Item Type Plastic Model Warship Kit
Model Brief Length: 272.2mm Beam: 43.4mm
Total Parts 430+
Metal Parts n/a
Photo Etched Parts 1 piece
Film Parts n/a
Resin Parts n/a
Total Sprues 14 sprues, upper hull, lower hull, water line plate, decks and stand
Released Date 2015-11
More Features Lower hull & upper hull made from multi-directional slide moulds.
- Either full hull version or waterline version can be selected.
- Deck wood pattern finely rendered
- Contains two OS2U plane
- Contains display stand and engraved name plate
In the raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, CALIFORNIA was sunk by Japanese torpedo action. Following the crew’s successful efforts that prevented capsize, CALIFORNIA was refloated on March 25th, 1942, and made for Puget Sound shipyard for rehabilitation and modernization, completed by January 1944. With sister Tennessee, CALIFORNIA participated in the invasions of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in June and July 1944, and in the Mariana and Palau islands invasions from June to November 1944. Tennessee collided with CALIFORNIA in the Pacific on August 23rd, 1944, both ships sustaining damage, with fatalities on CALIFORNIA. The naval Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 saw the sister ships in action again.
On January 6th, 1945, CALIFORNIA was struck by ‘Kamikaze’ plane during the Lingayen Gulf campaign and returned to Puget Sound for repairs. CALIFORNIA was back in action in the western Pacific at Okinawa in June 1945, remaining in the East China Sea on minesweeping duty. CALIFORNIA supported the Allied occupation forces in Japan until October 1945 before returning home to Philadelphia PA. CALIFORNIA was decommissioned in February 1947 and sold for scrap in July 1959.
Item No 05783
Item Name USS California BB-44 1941
Bar Code 9580208057835
Scale 1:700
Item Type Plastic Model Warship Kit
Model Brief Length: 272.2mm Beam: 43.4mm
Total Parts 430+
Metal Parts n/a
Photo Etched Parts 1 piece
Film Parts n/a
Resin Parts n/a
Total Sprues 14 sprues, upper hull, lower hull, water line plate, decks and stand
Released Date 2015-11
More Features Lower hull & upper hull made from multi-directional slide moulds.
- Either full hull version or waterline version can be selected.
- Deck wood pattern finely rendered
- Contains two OS2U plane
- Contains display stand and engraved name plate