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USS Leyte (CV/CVA/CVS-32, AVT-10) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the third US Navy ship to bear the name. Leyte was commissioned in April 1946, too late to serve in World War II.
United States: Bath Iron Works: Bath, Maine: Somers: Forrest Sherman-class destroyer May United States: Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company: Mobile, Alabama: El Dorado: Submersible: For Ocean Drilling & Exploration. [4] 6 June United States: New York Navy Yard: Brooklyn, New York: Independence: Forrestal-class aircraft carrier 7 June ...
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [ 1 ] although it does not include early vessels.
United States Navy: Kearsarge: Essex class aircraft carrier Scrapped Reserve until stricken in 1973 [1] 22 November United States Military Sea Transportation Service: Didrickson Bay: Casablanca class escort carrier Scrapped 28 December United States Navy: Philippine Sea: Essex class aircraft carrier Scrapped Reserve until stricken in 1969 Date ...
USS Galveston (CL-93/CLG-3) was a Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States Navy that was later converted to a Galveston-class guided missile cruiser.She was launched by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia 22 April 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Clark Wallace Thompson.
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Samuel B. Roberts, a Navy coxswain who was killed evacuating Marines during the battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.
Naval Air Station Chase Field is a former naval air station located in unincorporated Bee County, Texas, near Beeville. [1] It was named for Lieutenant Commander Nathan Brown Chase, [2] [3] Naval Aviator #37, who died in 1925 while developing carrier landing techniques for the U.S. Navy. [4]
Map of 17 Naval Districts 1944. United States Naval Districts is a system created by the United States Navy to organize military facilities, numbered sequentially by geographic region, for the operational and administrative control of naval bases and shore commands in the United States and around the world. Established in 1903, naval districts ...