USS Ward

**MichaelS** · #1 10-01-2018, 03:58 PM

I sure wish the peeps that do the USS Ward would re release it in time for me to do a build before December 7th. I do have one of them that "Pie Rate" versions but I will just not go that route.

If anybody out there in the hinterlands has one they will sell please drop me a PM.

**darter** · #2 10-01-2018, 04:20 PM

USS Ward, Fentens has the GPM inc laser cuts and minisub in 200th for 20 euros.
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**MichaelS** · #3 10-01-2018, 04:46 PM

I checked:

https://www.kartonmodellbau.de/epage...rchString=ward

and it shows Out of Stock

??

**darter** · #4 10-01-2018, 05:06 PM

Back in stock 10 days.
Maybe another seller has it.

**Thumb Dog** · #5 10-01-2018, 06:35 PM

Hi All,

And hi, MichaelS, it’s been awhile. Best of luck finding your copy of the USS Ward, DD 139.

We here in Minnesota have a special attachment to the old four-piper, as she was crewed by a large contingent of 84 reservists from Saint Paul. Her actions on December 7th, 1941, are well known, but not so her early history.

Built at the Mare Island Navy Yard in California, she was launched just 14 days after her keel was laid in one of those, “look-how-fast-we-can-build-‘em” bits of propaganda. When she was finally fitted out, she wore a singular dazzle camouflage pattern on her hull. I’ve always lamented that more paper warship models of that era don’t carry the colorful dazzle camo so prevalent at the time. A couple of attached photographs of the Ward show her in her early scheme.

Skipping forward to November 30, 2017, the remains of the Ward were discovered in over 600 feet of water in Ormoc Bay, near Layte, Philippines. In one of the great coincidences of the Second World War, she had been attacked by kamikaze aircraft on December 7th, 1944, exactly three years to the day after her victory over a Japanese submarine outside Pearl Harbor. To add to her strange end, she remained afloat for some time after her crew had been taken off. It was decided by the commander of the USS O’Brien to sink the flaming hulk by torpedoes. The commander of the O’Brien that day was William W. Outerbridge, the very same officer who commanded the Ward just three years earlier when the she fired the first American shots of World War II.

The four-inch gun that successfully sank the Japanese midget submarine is on permanent display on the grounds of the State Capital in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Photographs via NavSource Naval History,

Destroyer Photo Index DD-139 / APD-16 USS WARD

Score and fold,

Thumb Dog

**herky** · #6 10-01-2018, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelS

I sure wish the peeps that do the USS Ward would re release it in time for me to do a build before December 7th. I do have one of them that "Pie Rate" versions but I will just not go that route.

If anybody out there in the hinterlands has one they will sell please drop me a PM.

ok ive got to ask,if you ''will not go that route''' then why have you a pie rate version???

**jaffro** · #7 10-02-2018, 09:44 PM

I'll just leave this here...

**herky** · #8 10-03-2018, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelS

I sure wish the peeps that do the USS Ward would re release it in time for me to do a build before December 7th. I do have one of them that "Pie Rate" versions but I will just not go that route.

If anybody out there in the hinterlands has one they will sell please drop me a PM.

check out jsc