The USS Nashville was one of seven Brooklyn class light cruisers built shortly before the second world war. Nashville was on the east coast when Pearl Harbor was attacked. One of her first actions was to escort the carrier Hornet on her voyage to attack Japan with B-25s. Nashville operated in the Aleutians and South West Pacific during the remainder of 42. Early in 1943 she sailed to the west coast to get a badly needed refit. Emerging from Mare Island, she was almost a brand new ship. Gone was the huge bridge wings and superstructure and in it's place a lower profile slimmed down bridge that saved enough weight to allow for even more anti aircraft guns. This was the typical refit also applied to sister ships Phoenix and Honolulu during the same time frame. Nashville returned to the South Pacific and carried General Douglas MacArthur and his staff on their march toward the Philippines. She remained in the area until the wars end and helped carry the troops home afterwards. After the war Nashville placed in reserve fro a time and was later sold to Chile 9 January 1951. She was renamed Capitan Prat and served the Chilean Navy for many years until she was finally scrapped.

Niko Models has yet another famous warship captured in 700 scale resin. This is another one of my favorite ships and I am pleased to see it represented so well in my favorite scale. Waterline divine 700 scale!