USS SARGO SS-188 1/350 SCALE REF : BRM-35035
USS Sargo (SS-188), the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sargo.
Her keel was laid on 12 May 1937 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 6 June 1938 sponsored by Mrs. Catherine V. Nimitz, wife of Captain Chester W. Nimitz, and commissioned on 7 February 1939, Lieutenant E. E. Yeomans in command.
On 29 November 1942, she departed Brisbane and conducted her sixth patrol (now commanded by Edward S. Carmick, Class of 1930) en route to Hawaii. On the last day of 1942, she made a submer- ged attack on an enemy tanker off Tingmon Island, firing a spread of four torpedoes. Heavy explosions were heard, accompanied by grinding noises usually associated with a ship breaking up. JANAC did not confirm the sinking. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 21 January 1943 and proceeded to San Francisco Bay for a three-month overhaul in the Mare Island Navy Yard.
BLUE RIDGE MODELS WWW.BLUERIDGEMODEL.COM RESIN PARTS GENERIC PARTS
1 x1
2 x9
3 x2 4 x2 5 x2 6 x5 7 x1
8 x1 10 x1 11 x1 12 x1 13 x1
18 x1
14 x2 15 x2 16 x2 17 x2 PS PS
EARLY PARTS OVERHAUL PARTS
19 x1 25 x1
26 x2
20 x2 21 x2 28 x2 PS PS
22 x2 29 x2 PS PS 23 x1 24 x2 30 x1 27 x2
2 BRASS PARTS 1 x2
2 x1
3 x1 PHOTOETCH PARTS
11 14 18 18 15 14 17 19 10 16 7 8 13 14 11
5 7 9 6 6 12 18
4 13 21 4 20 12 12
23 3 7
3 22 22
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BLUE RIDGE MODELS - USS SARGO CLASS SUBMARINES - 1/350 DECALS PARTS
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1 Seadragon
SARGO SPEARFISH Sealion SARGO SPEARFISH Sealion 3 SAURY SAURY Seadragon
ASSEMBLY NOTES
# = Resin Parts # = Brass Parts # = Photo Etch Parts P. S = Port & Starboard # = Decals Parts ! = Assembly Warning Before starting the build of the model, please choose which of the early version or the overhaul you want to assemble. This is important, you will have to follow the right steps during the instructions !
Steps shows the overhaul version of the Sargo, for the early version please notice what resin and photoetch you will need to use.
The hull in this kit is for the overhaul version, and have more holes. If you want to build the early version, please plug the red hole shown in step 1.
3 STEP 01 EARLY VERSION HULL
4 STEP 02 FRONT HULL
L=11mm Ø=0.4mm
24 EARLY 22 ! L=10mm 21 LATE 14 Ø=0.2mm
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7 5 2 2 6 3
3 L=7mm P. S Ø=0.4mm ! P. S
4 L=19mm P. S Ø=0.4mm ! P. S 1
5 STEP 0103 EARLYMID HULL VERSION HULL
11 23 20
10 2’ EARLY ! EARLY LATE ! EARLY LATE 7 ! 1’ LATE
7 11 2 2 6 2 10
! 1 LATE
2 EARLY
6 STEP 04 MID HULL
16 L=8mm Ø=0.4mm 24 EARLY ! LATE 14
L=9mm 7 Ø=0.4mm 7 6 ! P. S 6
12 ! 29 LATE P. S ! 28 LATE P. S
22 EARLY P. S 21 EARLY P. S
7 STEP 05 REAR HULL
L=14mm Ø=0.2mm
17 7 6
13 5 2
19
18
L=12mm Ø=0.4mm 17 P. S 14 P. S ! P. S
16 P. S 15 P. S 15 P. S 8 STEP 06 LATE CONING TOWER 26
1 1 27
13 3
2
12 11 8 7 10
30 L=9mm Ø=0.2mm
P. S 4 6 P. S 5 25
7 P. S
P. S 9 EARLY CONING TOWER
1 1
3
2
L=9mm 8 Ø=0.2mm 7 10
20 18
6 P. S 19
P. S 8
9 PAINTING LATE VERSION
EARLY VERSION
10 LATE VERSION
11 EARLY VERSION
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