USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 Wood Model Ship

Model L: 33 W: 8 H: 14 Inches

Now available for the first time ever, a precise  scale model of the USS Blueridge. This highly collectible full-hull (not waterline) display model ship has an approximate retail value of $1000, but we are making it available for a whole lot less! The wooden base makes it very handy and easy to display.  Now, imagine this precise work of model ship art sitting proudly on top of your desk in the office, or on the mantle at home. Your friends, colleagues, or maybe even your former shipmates, come in and marvel as they admire your (latest) acquisition, wondering aloud how expensive this RARE and valuable model ship is. You, of course, will smile, pleased that you had seized the opportunity when it was offered - knowing what a bargain it really is, a very well-made model ship at the very best possible price...less than half of what it could actually cost on the market!

Now a handcrafted full-hull solid wood ship model of the USS Blue Ridge is available 33 inches long, this replica is carved by hand from mahogany wood and is heavily detailed with handcast resin and metal pieces. It comes ready to display on an elegant, handmade, furniture-finish display base. A brass name plate compliments the model ship.

USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) is the lead ship of the Blue Ridge-class of command ships of the United States Navy. She is the third Navy ship named after the Blue Ridge Mountains, a series of ranges in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern US.

The ship was commissioned on November 14, 1970, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as a command and control platform for the Navy. With accommodations for more than 200 officers and 1200 enlisted, the ship provides all the services of a small town.

From 1971 until 1979, Blue Ridge operated from San Diego, California, where she deployed to the Western Pacific, earning the Meritorious Unit and Navy Unit Commendations for the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam in 1975.

Since October 1979, Blue Ridge has been forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan as the flagship of Commander Seventh Fleet. Blue Ridge participates routinely in U.S. and allied training exercise each year with countries throughout the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. She performed a nine-and-one-half month deployment as flagship for Commander United States Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm from August 1990 through May 1991, for which the ship earned another Navy Unit Commendation.

Blue Ridge frequently makes port calls throughout the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean including Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Australia. She made her historic port visit to Shanghai, People's Republic of China in 1989 and again in 2004. It also visited Vladivostok, Russia in 1996, 2003 and 2006. The ship has also been cited for rescues of refugees and merchant vessels.

This and all of our mahogany wood display model ships are the finest licensed products anywhere! Over thirty five years of building ship models shows in our work.
Each model takes many hours to add the detail and weapons that these boat models carry. The paint is as realistic as the orginal ship still on the water!

This is not a cheap made in China model

Beware of cheap imitations!

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