1/192 Bluejacket Esso Trenton - Cimarron Class National Defense Features Class Tanker - 35 Inch Long Wood And Metal Ship Model
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
Very rare model that is long out of production. Museum quality craftsman model in large scale features hardwood, kiln-dried, factory-carved hull, hardwood factory-carved superstructure, extensive high quality cast Britannia fittings and other hardwood and metal parts as required. Includes very detailed full size plans and text instruction booklet. The kit has never been started. The fittings are all still in the factory sealed bags. The parts that were never factory sealed (hull, wood and metal stock) have been inventoried complete. Includes all paperwork. This is not the single propeller T-2 kit, but a correct model of the Cimarron Class the preceded it. Esso Trenton was 9th of 12 National Defense Features tankers to be launched. SS Esso Trenton was built by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Kearny, NJ. Here sisterships included USS Neosho (lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942), SS Markay (which became the USS Suwanee), Esso New Orleans and more. Esso Trenton was a twin-screw vessel (which this model accurately depicts) with a deadweight of 18,300 tons capacity and a draft of just over 31 feet. She had a length of 525 feet, beam of 75 feet and a draft of 39 feet. Her original cargo capacity was 146,024 barrels of oil with a pumping rate of 8,000 barrels and house. Her turbine engines, supplied with steam by four water-tube boilers, drove this large ship at 18 knots average speed. Esso Trenton served Esso only from delivery on December 14, 1939 till take-over by the government on October 22, 1940. During this time she had a very active career. But the US Navy had greater plans that oil for the Esso Trenton; she was converted to the aircraft carrier USS Sangamon. This ship and crew had an incredibly active service life and became very famous.
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