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USS South Carolina (BB-26), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the eighth state.She was also the first American dreadnought; though she did not incorporate turbine propulsion like HMS Dreadnought, South Carolina ' s design included revolutionary aspects as well, primarily the superfiring arrangement of ...
USS SC-636 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. It was laid down on 29 August 1941 by the Vineyard Shipbuilding Co. in Milford, Delaware and launched on 14 May 1942. It was commissioned on 11 July 1942. It foundered during Typhoon Louise on 9 October 1945 off the coast of Okinawa.
Victory Shipbuilding Company built two submarine chasers that were of the SC-497-class submarine chaser design that had a displacement of 94 tons with a length of 110 feet (34 m), a beam of 17 feet (5.2 m), a draft of 6 feet (1.8 m), a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). They had a crew of 28.
She was commissioned into the US Navy as USS SC-718 on 25 May 1943. [ 2 ] In August 1943 US Admiral Harold R. Stark , commander of US Naval Forces Europe , ordered SC-718 and two other SC-class subchasers - SC-683 and SC-1061 - to be transferred to Britain.
Submarine chaser SC-405 at Brest, France, December 1918. Following the end of the war, four boats (USS SC-274, USS SC-302, USS SC-311 and USS SC-312) were transferred to Cuba, while 14 boats were transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1919–1920. [2] Eight of the French SC boats remained in service at the outbreak of World War II. [12]
A full list of United States Navy LSTs.The Landing Ship, Tanks (LSTs) built for the United States Navy during and immediately after World War II were only given an LST-number hull designation, but on 1 July 1955, county or Louisiana-parish names were assigned to those ships which remained in service.
USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casimir Pulaski (1745–1779), a Polish general who served in the American Revolutionary War.
USS South Carolina may refer to: USS South Carolina (1798) was a schooner built in 1797 and later served the Revenue Cutter Service until 1803; USS South Carolina (1799) was a coastal patrol vessel built in 1799 and sold in 1802; USS South Carolina (1860) was a screw steamer built in 1860; served in the American Civil War and sold in 1866