The USCG are real sailors all. Ditto USN but the coasties have a lot of boats to name.
One of the ones I follow are the tree series bouy tenders
I’m working on the Fir.
Hi,
I thought that the USS Shangri-La was launched in 1944.
it was.
CV-38 was named Shangri-La after a fictitious Hymalayan kingdom described by James Hilton in his novel, Lost Horizon. During World War II, just after the Halsey-Doolittle bomber raid on Tokyo of 18 April 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in response to questions posed by members of the press, reported that the planes had been launched from somewhere in Shangri-La. This name honors USS Hornet (CV-8) which actually launched the Tokyo raiders, and which was subsequently lost in the Battle of Santa Cruz Island on the night of 26 and 27 October 1942.
"PORTSMOUTH, Va., Feb.18[, 1944]–USS SHANGRI LA SET FOR LAUNCHING
CapnMac, less work to use a Baltimore class hull then to use an Atlanta class hull as the Atlanta hull is the wrong shape & size plus no useful parts from the Atlanta kit compared to what you can use off the Baltimore kit. also Atlanta has 2 props compared to Baltimore’s & Roanoke’s 4 props.