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Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Water Models / August 2008WW2 Destroyer fighting lights help required please.
Dear All, My father has a question regarding fighting lights used on US destroyers in WW2. He is building a RC model of the USS Nicholas which features fighting lights. He knows that they consist of an 18" high unit that houses 3 lights, in a traffic light manner. He has technical drawings and black and white photos and knows that they are mounted on masts and superstructure. Does anyone know how they were used and what colours they would have been? Does anyone know where this information might be found? Thanks for your help! Best wishes, Nick Which USS Nicholas? USS Nicholas (DD/DDE-449), Fletcher-class destroyer home page The US Navy's first 2100-ton destroyer in photos, deck logs, action reports and other records www.ussnicholas.org Google and you will find lots of resources.<grin>. -- >Dear All, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Nick Try this site. http://www.floatingdrydock.com/ Great model ship peopl -- Dbo Nick, I too was building a destroyer and has the same question. Heres what found, the fighting lights were used to identify friendly vessels during a night fight so as not to blast your own ship out of the water. I finally found a site where they mentioned the use of them during a battl http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/base/1250/duncancape.html and below i a quote of the paragraph. Apparently while they state "green over gree over white, this could be any combination of the three obviously by pre-arrangement. Here's the quote from the above site document where they actually use them to identify friendly's (now we use electronic recognition to suppress fire at friendly aircraft ships etc). Hope this helps your dad complete his apparently extremely accurat model. " his ships up ahead on the starboard side. Scott, still not satisfied wanted to know if his crusiers had been shooting at Tobin's destroyers The squadron commander replied, "I don't know who you were firing at. Still uncertain, Scott ordered Tobin's three ships to flash their battl recognition lights. Lights green over green over white in a vertica position flickered momentarily to starboard. Satisfied at last -- an four minutes had elapsed -- Scott at 2351 ordered Resume Firing! " Regards, Bil -- William Biege |
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