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New Mexico was the U.S. Navy's most advanced warship and its first battleship with a turbo-electric transmission, which helped her reach a maximum speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). Shortly after completing initial training, New Mexico escorted the ship that carried President Woodrow Wilson to Brest, France to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
New Mexico and Idaho were quickly decommissioned and sold for scrap, but Mississippi remained in service, having been converted into a gunnery testing and training ship. In this capacity, her crew experimented with anti-aircraft missiles in the mid-1950s before the ship was sold to ship breakers in 1956.
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.
On 16 April 1945, a kamikaze aircraft dove through the flight deck, killing eight and wounding 21, but the ship was landing planes again within three hours. Today she is a museum ship in New York City. USS Franklin (CV-13) was damaged by aircraft bombs on 19 March 1945, 50 miles south of Shikoku, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa. She survived ...
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
USS New Mexico (BB-40) USS Mississippi (BB-41) USS Idaho (BB-42) USS Colorado (BB-45) USS West Virginia (BB-48) USS Iowa (BB-61) (sister ship of USS Missouri and lead ship of the class) USS Missouri (BB-63) (The ship on which the surrender was signed) USS South Dakota (BB-57) HMS Duke of York (17) HMS King George V (41)
On 7 December 1941, Colorado was undergoing a refit to install new torpedo bulges at Puget Sound Navy Yard, [8] while the three ships of the New Mexico class were assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. The remaining eight Standard Type battleships were at Pearl Harbor , Pennsylvania in drydock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and the other 7 forming ...
New Mexico-class battleship; USS New York (BB-34) New York-class battleship; USS North Dakota (BB-29) O. USS Ohio (BB-12) USS Oklahoma (BB-37) USS Oregon (BB-3) P.