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05/03/2025

USS Colorado (BB-45) was a warship of the United States Navy. She was laid down on 29 May 1919 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey. She was laid down on 22 March 1921, sponsored by M. Melville, and commissioned on 30 August 1923, with Captain R. R. Belknap in command. She had four 16-inch (40.6 cm) double-barreled gun turrets.

After the war, Colorado participated in operations to bring American troops home. She was decommissioned in 1947, and sold for scrap in 1959.

05/03/2025

USS California (BB-44) was a United States ship launched on November 2, 1919 by the Mare Island Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. R.T Zane and commissioned on August 10, 1921, commanded by Captain H.J Ziegemeier and assigned to the Pacific Fleet as the flagship.

05/03/2025

USS Tennessee (BB-43) was a Tennessee-class battleship born on 30 April 1919. She was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 16th state of the United States. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, Tennessee was damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, although she was later repaired and modernized.

05/03/2025

USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built by and for the United States Navy. She was the third ship named after the state of Arizona, and entered active service in 1916. Arizona, along with eight other battleships, part of the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, was moored at Pearl Harbor when Japan launched its surprise attack on December 7, 1941. Arizona was hit by a bomb right in her ammunition magazine, exploding and sinking with 1,177 men on board.

04/03/2025

USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States battleship. The ship cost $5,895,000. It was built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company. Nicknamed the "Cheer Up Ship", it was decommissioned on August 29, 1946 and sunk during a training exercise on July 31, 1948. It was equipped with two 50/14-inch twin-barreled turrets with two 50/14-inch triple-barreled turrets. It was the luckiest battleship to escape further damage from the Pearl Harbor attack by running out to sea and beaching it. After Pearl Harbor, USS Nevada underwent repairs at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. Nevada was completed in mid-1943. The ship's appearance changed dramatically because the entire superstructure was rebuilt so that the anti-aircraft gun angle was more effective. The armament was also overhauled, with additional twin 5-inch/38-cal guns being used as secondary guns. In addition, Nevada also received an additional 36 40 mm anti-aircraft cannons and 38 20 mm cannons. In its assignment, Nevada acted as a logistics route guard in the Atlantic. During the landing operation in Normandy (D-Day), she also played a role in the coastal bombardment.

04/03/2025

USS Texas (1892) was a second-class battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s. It was the first United States Navy ship to be named USS TEXAS, in honor of the state of Texas, which was taken from its native inhabitants by Spain and then Mexico, and later became a free republic, having been incorporated into the United States as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. Built to rival modern armored ships by several South American nations, USS Texas was intended to combine new developments in war tactics with new warship design. However, problems with the state of the US steel industry at the time caused delays in construction, causing USS Texas to become somewhat outdated.

18/02/2025

New Mexico-class battleship
-- The New Mexico class was a class of three super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1910s. The class comprised three ships: New Mexico, the lead ship, Mississippi, and Idaho. Part of the standard series, they were in most respects copies of the Pennsylvania-class battleships that immediately preceded them, carrying over the same main battery arrangement of twelve 14-inch (356 mm) guns, but now increased to 50-caliber. They incorporated several other improvements, including a better arrangement of the secondary battery that increased its usability, a clipper bow that improved seakeeping, and an experimental turbo-electric propulsion system adopted on New Mexico. Like the other standard-type battleships, they had a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) that allowed the fleet to operate as a tactically homogeneous unit.

All three ships spent the bulk of their peacetime careers in the Pacific Fleet; throughout the 1920s and 1930s, they were involved in numerous Fleet Problems, which were large-scale training exercises that helped develop the doctrine later employed during the Pacific War. By 1941, the three ships were moved to the East Coast to join the Neutrality Patrols that protected American merchant ships from German U-boat attacks during the Battle of the Atlantic. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, they were quickly transferred back to the Pacific, though they spent most of 1942 es**rting convoys off the west coast of the United States. Beginning in mid-1943, they supported amphibious operations during the Aleutian Islands, Gilbert and Marshall Islands, and the Mariana and Palau Islands Campaigns. The Philippines Campaign followed in late 1944, though Mississippi was the only member of the class to participate in the early stages of the campaign, the other vessels being under refit at the time. There, she was present for the Battle of Surigao Strait on 24 October, the last battleship engagement in history.

18/02/2025

Nevada-class battleship
-- The Nevada class comprised two dreadnought battleships—Nevada and Oklahoma—built for the United States Navy in the 1910s.[a] They were significant developments in battleship design, being the first in the world to adopt "all or nothing" armor, a major step forward in armor protection because it emphasized protection optimized for long-range engagements before the Battle of Jutland demonstrated the need for such a layout. They also introduced three-gun turrets and oil-fired water-tube boilers to the US fleet. The two Nevadas were the progenitors of the standard-type battleship, a group that included the next four classes of broadly similar battleships that were intended to be tactically homogeneous.

Nevada and Oklahoma deployed to Ireland in 1918 to es**rt convoys during World War I but saw no action. After the war, they were transferred to the Pacific Fleet, where they spent most of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, they conducted extensive training operations and made several long-distance cruises, including to Australia and New Zealand in 1925 and Oklahoma's voyage to Europe in 1936. Both vessels were extensively modernized between 1927 and 1930, having their armament improved, protection scheme strengthened, and new boilers installed. They were moored in Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on 7 December 1941; Oklahoma was sunk in the attack while Nevada was able to get underway before being forced to ground herself to avoid sinking in deeper water.

18/02/2025

Iowa-class battleship
-- The Iowa class was a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast capital ships such as the Japanese Kongō class and serve as the "fast wing" of the U.S. battle line.[3][4] The Iowa class was designed to meet the Second London Naval Treaty's "escalator clause" limit of 45,000-long-ton (45,700 t) standard displacement. Beginning in August 1942, four vessels, Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin, were completed; two more, Illinois and Kentucky, were laid down but canceled in 1945 and 1958, respectively, before completion, and both hulls were scrapped in 1958–1959.

The four Iowa-class ships were the last battleships commissioned in the U.S. Navy. All older U.S. battleships were decommissioned by 1947 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register (NVR) by 1963. Between the mid-1940s and the early 1990s, the Iowa-class battleships fought in four major U.S. wars. In the Pacific Theater of World War II, they served primarily as fast es**rts for Essex-class aircraft carriers of the Fast Carrier Task Force and also shelled Japanese positions. During the Korean War, the battleships provided naval gunfire support (NGFS) for United Nations forces, and in 1968, New Jersey shelled Viet Cong and Vietnam People's Army forces in the Vietnam War. All four were reactivated and modernized at the direction of the United States Congress in 1981, and armed with missiles during the 1980s, as part of the 600-ship Navy initiative. During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Missouri and Wisconsin fired missiles and 16-inch (406 mm) guns at Iraqi targets.

Costly to maintain, the battleships were decommissioned during the post-Cold War drawdown in the early 1990s. All four were initially removed from the Naval Vessel Register, but the United States Congress compelled the Navy to reinstate two of them on the grounds that existing shore bombardment capability would be inadequate for amphibious operations. This resulted in a lengthy debate over whether battleships should have a role in the modern navy. Ultimately, all four ships were stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and released for donation to non-profit organizations. With the transfer of Iowa in 2012, all four are museum ships part of non-profit maritime museums across the US.

18/02/2025

Colorado-class battleship
-- The Colorado-class battleships[a] were a group of four United States Navy super-dreadnoughts, the last of its pre-Treaty battleships. Designed during World War I, their construction overlapped the end of that conflict and continued in its immediate aftermath. Though all four keels were laid, only three ships entered service: Colorado, Maryland, and West Virginia. Washington was over 75% completed when she was canceled under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922. As such, the 16" gun Colorado-class ships were the last and most powerful battleships built by the U.S. Navy until the North Carolina class entered service on the eve of World War II.

The Colorados were the final group of the Standard-type battleships, designed to have similar speed and handling to simplify maneuvers with the line of battle. The cancelled South Dakota class which was to follow would have in several ways been a departure from this practice. Apart from an upgrade in striking power with their eight 16-inch guns, the Colorados were essentially repeats of the earlier Tennessee class. The Colorados were also the last American capital ships built with four main armament turrets and twin-mounted guns.

All three ships had extensive careers during World War II. Maryland and West Virginia were both present during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. While Maryland escaped relatively unscathed, West Virginia was sunk in the shallow waters of the harbor but subsequently raised and repaired. All three ships served as naval gunfire support ships during numerous amphibious operations. Maryland and West Virginia were present at the last surface action between battleships, the Battle of Surigao Strait during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. All three ships were placed into the reserve fleet after the end of the war and were scrapped by the late 1950s.--

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