- Legendary Battleships Collection
- Highly detailed realistic collectible model.
- Plastic display stand included.
- Approximate dimensions: 6.5” L x 0.8” W x 2.0” H
- Acrylic display dimension 10.25” L x 4.2” W x 4.6” H
- Display model, recommended for hobbyists and collectors 14 years and above.
The USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is a South Dakota-class battleship built for the U.S. Navy in the late 1930s. Designed under the Washington treaty's escalator clause, it features 16-inch guns but maintains a displacement close to the 35,000-ton limit. Cramped due to heavy armor and increased anti-aircraft batteries during wartime, it supported Operation Torch in 1942, neutralizing the French battleship Jean Bart, then shifted to the Pacific for key operations against Japan, including the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and the Battle of Okinawa.
Post-war, Massachusetts was decommissioned in 1947 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. In 1962, she was removed from the Naval Vessel Register and transferred to the Massachusetts Memorial Committee in 1965. Preserved as a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts, she remains in her wartime configuration, with some material removed in the 1980s to reactivate the Iowa-class battleships.
This Motor City Classics Legendary Battleship 1/250 scale model replicates USS Massachusetts (BB-59) from 1941.
USS Massachusetts Detailed Information:
Name Massachusetts
Namesake Massachusetts
Builder Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Fore River Shipyard)
Laid down 20 July 1939
Launched 23 September 1941
Commissioned 12 May 1942
Decommissioned 27 March 1947
Stricken 1 June 1962
Status Museum ship at Battleship Cove since 14 August 1965
Class and type South Dakota-class battleship
Displacement
Standard: 37,970 long tons (38,579 t)
Full load: 44,519 long tons (45,233 t)
Length 680 ft (210 m) o/a
Beam 108 ft 2 in (32.97 m)
Draft 35 ft 1 in (10.69 m)
Installed power
130,000 shp (97,000 kW)
8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Propulsion
4 × General Electric steam turbines
4 × screw propellers
Speed 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph)
Range 15,000 nmi (28,000 km; 17,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Crew
1,793 officers and enlisted men (peace)
2,500 officers and enlisted men (war)
Armament
9 × 16 in (406 mm) guns
20 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns
7 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
35 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns
Armor
Belt: 12.2 in (310 mm)
Deck: 6 in (152 mm)
Turrets: 18 in (457.2 mm)
Barbettes: 17.3 in (440 mm)
Conning tower: 16 in
Aircraft carried 3 × "Kingfisher" floatplanes
Aviation facilities 2 × catapults
