Saratoga Model Shipyard 1/1250 SMY44 USS Rigel AD13 1921-41

A 1/1250 scale metal model of USS Rigel as a destroyer depot ship in 1938 rig. Built for the US shipping board in 1918 and converted to AD.13 in 1922 home ported in San Diego. She was under conversion to a base repair ship at Pearl Harbour without superstructure when the Japanese attacked and she was slightly damaged but completed in February 1942 as AR.11 Rigel