Scale: 1/150
 
This one piece funnel features the correct complex elliptical shape, exhausts and vents characteristic of the US Navy's and US Coast Guard's Cannon-class and Edsall-class destroyer escorts. The ships of these classes were powered by diesel engines. The Cannon-class were configured as Diesel Electric Tandem "TED" drive and the follow-on Edsall-class with Fairbanks-Morse reduction gear "FMR" direct drives. The diesel motors' exhaust was vented up through pipes within the funnel casing resulting in the funnel cap interior's very unusual appearance. The correct appearance of the funnel cap interior and diesel exhausts are captured by this model.
 
The preceding Buckley-class destroyer escorts (known as "Captain-class" frigates in Royal Navy service) had the same hull as the following Cannon-class and Edsall-class.
 
Ships of the Cannon-class and Edsal-class had remarkable service records from World War Two through the Vietnam War and beyond. Several ships of these classes served with allied navies. One Edsall-class ship, USS Forster DE-334, was captured by North Vietnam while serving with the South Vietnam Navy.  Cannon-class BRP Rajah Humabon (FF-11) of the Philippine Navy, formerly  USS Atherton DE-169, continued to serve as late as 2016. Cannon-class destroyer escort USS Slater DE-766 is preserved as a museum ship in New York. Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Stewart DE-238 is preserved in Texas.
 
Thanks to noted naval historian Rick E. Davis who graciously contributed plans, advice, research effort and reference materials obtained from the National Archives, as well as David Perry who also provided plans.
 
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