https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/06/06001.htm
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/ships-us/ships-usn-c/uss-carronade-ifs-1.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carronade
So... Yes, it was real.
It was Lindberg, not Revell:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/lindberg-722m-249-carronade--1286826
Scalemates lists it as 1/164. Box art lists it as 1/170. Many sites currently selling it list it as 1/168. It was "box scale." Listed by most places as 17 inches long.
Actual ship was 245 feet long. 245 × 12 = 2,940 inches. Divided by 170 = 17.294 inches. Divided by 173 = 16.994 inches. Divided by 172 = 17.093 inches.
If the kit is actually 17 inches long (I long, long ago lost my example to measure) then it is roughly 1/172 or 1/173 scale.
May I ask?
Revell's USS CARRONADE?
Was that an actual vessel?
OK, how big is that model, in inches?
Tim
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