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USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is the third of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, they took advantage of an escalator clause that allowed increasing the main battery to 16-inch (406 mm) guns, but refusal to authorize larger ...
"The Shitty Dick" – USS South Dakota – nickname given by the crewmen of USS Washington, as a result of South Dakota having been given sole credit in the press for the victory at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. "Shitty Kitty" – USS Kitty Hawk "Showboat" – USS North Carolina "Sleek and Deadly Duck" – USS Donald B. Beary
USS Massachusetts was an Indiana-class, pre-dreadnought battleship and the second United States Navy ship comparable to foreign battleships of its time. [5] Authorized in 1890, and commissioned six years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship class also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery.
The U.S. Navy battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) seen from the after deck of USS Alabama (BB-60), in Casco Bay, Maine (USA), January 1943. The muzzles of Alabama´s after 40.6 cm/45 guns are in the foreground. Date: January 1943: Source
Massachusetts was subsequently designated the Commonwealth's official memorial to veterans of the Gulf War. Soon after the arrival of the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the Mayor of Fall River christened the site “Battleship Cove”. In 1975 Tin Can Sailors, Inc., a national organization of 24,000 destroyer veterans, was founded at Battleship Cove.
Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.
Joe Feitelberg spearheaded the drive to bring the USS Massachusetts battleship to Fall River. ... followed by his funeral Mass at 11 a.m. at Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover St. in Fall River.
For ships with unique names, "USS Shipname" redirects to the ship article. For reused names, ... USS Massachusetts (1791, 1845, 1860, 1869, ...