This is a partially completed model of the USS North Carolina in 1/350 scale made by Trumpeter.

"USS North Carolina (BB-55) was the lead ship of North Carolina-class battleships and the fourth warship in the U.S. Navy to be named for the State of North Carolina. She was the first newly constructed American battleship to enter service during World War II, and took part in every major naval offensive in the Pacific Theatre of Operations; her 15 battle stars made her the most decorated American battleship of World War II. She is now a museum ship and memorial kept at the seaport of Wilmington, North Carolina."

Her sister ship, the USS Washington, came to the rescue of the USS South Dakota which had been damaged in a night action with a Japanese task force around Guadalcanal, by sinking the Japanese Battle cruiser Kirishima.