Victory at Sea - USS Portland osprey Shields are shown painted in

Shields are shown painted in a solid colour such as red or blue

and is ideal for the most delicate of painting tasks – fine highlights

There were to have been four ships of the Richlieu-class

With Britain

Victory at Sea - USS Portland osprey Shields are shown painted inUSS Portland, the lead ship of the Portland class of cruiser, launched in 1932. She completed a number of training and goodwill cruises in the interwar period before seeing extensive service during World War II. Her first wartime action was at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, escorting the carrier Yorktown and rescuing survivors from the carrier Lexington. She repeated this escort assignment for Yorktown for the Battle of Midway. For the