by Juan Carlos Pérez
1/700 DDG-21 USS Cochrane (Pit-Road)
This is the USS COCHRANE (DDG-21), named for Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, US Navy, was a Charles F. Adams -class guided missile armed destroyer .
The Cochrane was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Seattle, Washington on 31 July 1961, launched on 18 July 1962 and commissioned on 21 March 1963.
On 1 October 1980 USS Cochrane (DDG-21) rescued 104 Vietnamese refugees 620 miles east of Saigon.
The Cochrane was decommissioned on 1 October 1990, struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking, Incorporated, of Brownsville in Texas on 14 November 2000.
The kit length is 19.0cm. I used rails set of Tom's Modelworks and decals.
