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USS Georgia (BB-15) was a United States Navy Virginia-class battleship, the third of five ships of the class. She was built by the Bath Iron Works in Maine, with her keel laid in August 1901 and her launching in October 1904. The completed battleship was commissioned into the fleet in September 1906.
USS Michigan (BB-27), a South Carolina-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 26th state.She was the second member of her class, the first dreadnought battleships built for the US Navy.
The Standard-type battleship was a series of thirteen battleships across five classes ordered for the United States Navy between 1911 and 1916 and commissioned between 1916 and 1923. [1] These were considered super-dreadnoughts , with the ships of the final two classes incorporating many lessons from the Battle of Jutland .
USS Indiana was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. [5] Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance.
USS Louisiana (BB-19) was a Connecticut-class battleship of the United States Navy.She was the second member of the class of six pre-dreadnought battleships, and the third ship to carry her name.
USS Delaware (BB-28) was a dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class.She was laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in November 1907, launched in January 1909, and completed in April 1910.
USS Indiana (BB-58) was the second of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 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 battleships ...
USS Ohio (BB-12), a Maine-class pre-dreadnought battleship, was the third ship of her class and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 17th state.She was laid down at the Union Iron Works shipyard in San Francisco in April 1899, was launched in May 1901, and was commissioned into the fleet in October 1904.