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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:02 am 
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It depends on how much time and effort you want to put into it. You can work off her Booklet of General plans available here which will at least show you which are doors and which are open air arch ways. Otherwise, you're going to have to go to NARA and look through the microfilm plans to see if any show the type of door used.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 4:02 pm 
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Thanks, Tracy. I was hoping that there was some mid-30s USN spec that would tell me what all the doors should look like
given their application, but, in lieu of that, I'll just go with the appearance of the doors on the builder's model at the Navy Yard
Museum in D.C.... sort of horizontally faceted doors, with no portholes.


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 4:58 pm 
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I stumbled across some plans for doors, consoles, light fixtures, etc. in some post-war records turned over by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, but I've never seen a "door plan" or guide before. I know that an awful lot of the plans generated for ships were never turned over to archives, so we just have to do the best with what we have.

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Greetings fans USS Ranger. I have such a request for photo documentation.
I'm going to build a ship from the end of service in 1946.I found only three photos from this period, which is not much. Could someone find an interesting photo?


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 4:12 pm 
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Have any of the usual suspects released any detail sets for this kit yet?


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:19 pm 
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I haven’t seen a detail kit yet, I just ordered my 1/350 Trumpeter USS Ranger kit, been doing some basic research on her, not quite sure if I want to back date her or do her as she is in 1942, I did notice that the air group is wrong, well one of them is wrong for that time, they have F6F Hellcats when she actually had F4F Wildcats, so still need to decide which way I’m going to go.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 8:37 pm 
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If you plan on doing a 1942 version, here is what her deck looked like.
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Build Mon$ter wrote:
I haven’t seen a detail kit yet, I just ordered my 1/350 Trumpeter USS Ranger kit, been doing some basic research on her, not quite sure if I want to back date her or do her as she is in 1942, I did notice that the air group is wrong, well one of them is wrong for that time, they have F6F Hellcats when she actually had F4F Wildcats, so still need to decide which way I’m going to go.

Allegedly a 1942 version is in the works, so you may want to save yourself the trouble of backdating and wait for that version.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:54 pm 
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Ranger, allegedly in April 1938. Photo from the Nation Archives, NARA II 80G74553
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Another view of the pre war secondary conn. Photo shows Admiral Joseph M Reeves and other admirals on Ranger's Focsle Deck. Not sure of the year or place. Photo from San Diego Air and Space Museum via Flickr.


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1. USS Ranger (CV-4) in Jan 06, 1943 leaving Norfolk Navy Shipyard. During a yard period in Norfolk over Christmas 42/43, Ranger was repainted from Measure 12 Modified to Measure 22: (5-N), Navy Blue to the main deck, Haze Gray (5-H) above. Flight deck - 250N Blue Flight Deck stain with Grey stained deck stripes called 251N.

2. This is a screen capture from a color film from the US National Archives (428-npc-461) during February 1943. RANGER is transporting a cargo of P-40s to North Africa.

3. This shot, (labeled as Oct 1943, Operation Leader) appears to show the Navy extended up the island structure. The mast has been wiped by the censor.

4. This shot from the IWM, during Leader, also seems to show the same scheme.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:03 pm 
Gang,

Anyone know when, which re-fit, Ranger went from the sideways sliding doors opening out of the hangar deck, to the vertical rolling doors?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 12:36 am 
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Anyone know when, which re-fit, Ranger went from the sideways sliding doors opening out of the hangar deck, to the vertical rolling doors


I didn't know that a change was made. Do you have any images that show vertical rolling doors on Ranger? In the builder's plans from 1944, they are labeled as "rolling steel doors". In Yorktown and Wasp plans, they are labeled as "roller curtains".

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Dear Boys & Girls, did Classic Warships Publishing ever release a "Warship Pictorial" title on USS Ranger CV-4? I just bought "Warship Pictorial" N°. 44 on USS Yorktown CV-5 so I was wondering...

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:23 am 
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DavidP wrote:
does not show in this link. http://www.classicwarships.com/warship_ ... orial.html
CV-4 – USS Ranger – Booklet of General Plans, 1944, Ranger Class https://www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cv4.pdf
CV-5 – USS Yorktown – Booklet of General Plans, 1940, Yorktown Class https://www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cv5.pdf
https://www.hnsa.org/manuals-documents/ ... ns-online/


Thank you DavidP, that's a shame; CV-4 is fascinating and deserves such publication treatment.

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I'm not disagreeing with you, but she only received two battle stars for her service in the war. It's easy to see why other ships get more attention.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:08 pm 
Caravellarella wrote:
Thank you DavidP, that's a shame; CV-4 is fascinating and deserves such publication treatment.
Terry (Caravellarella)


Few ships have so excellent a biography.

https://www.amazon.com/USS-Ranger-Navys ... 1574885197


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