ATLANTIS H352 USS FORREST SHERMAN DD-931 (FIRST DESTROYER OF ITS CLASS)
1/319 SCALE
DESCRIPTION:
Forrest Sherman was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath, Maine, on 27 October 1953, launched on 5 February 1955 by Mrs. Forrest P. Sherman, widow of Admiral Sherman, and commissioned on 9 November 1955.
After a year of initial training and fitting out, Forrest Sherman arrived at her home port, Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island, 15 January 1957. Two days later she sailed for Washington, D.C., where she was open for public visiting during the week of the second inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. From Newport, Forrest Sherman sailed on training and fleet exercises along the east coast and in the Caribbean, until the summer of 1957, when she took part in the midshipman cruise to South America and the International Naval Review in Hampton Roads on 12 June.
Forrest Sherman shortly after her commissioning in 1955.
On 3 September 1957, Forrest Sherman sailed for NATO Operation Strikeback, screening a carrier striking group in exercises off Norway. She called at Plymouth, England, and Copenhagen, Denmark, before returning to Narragansett Bay on 22 October. In preparation for her first deployment to the Mediterranean, the destroyer took part in amphibious exercises off Puerto Rico in July 1958, and arrived at Gibraltar on 10 August. She patrolled the eastern Mediterranean through the rest of the month, then sailed to join the 7th Fleet in its operations off Taiwan in support of the threatened islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Sailing eastward to complete a cruise around the world, Forrest Sherman returned to Newport on 11 November.
FEATURES:
* Brand: Atlantis
* Title: USS Forrest Sherman
* Number: H352
* Scale: 1/319
* Type: Full kit
* Released: 2019 New box
* Topic: Destroyer Forrest Sherman-class » Destroyers (Ships)
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