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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 largest vessel in the Battleship Cove fleet, the South Dakota class battleship USS Massachusetts, is the centerpiece of the collection. Known as "Big Mamie" to her crewmembers during World War II, she was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the sixth state.
USS Arizona "Operation 85" is a civilian lead initiative aimed at identifying 85 or more unknown American servicemen from the battleship USS Arizona which were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, who are interred in commingled graves and marked as "unknown" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, or Punchbowl Cemetery, located 10 miles (16 km) away from the location of the wreck of ...
Two sunken vessels from WWII were recently found off the coast of North Carolina. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered the Nazi U-boat 576 and the ...
Recovery efforts to begin. Col. Butler, speaking to reporters after the Coast Guard announced it had suspended search and rescue efforts Tuesday night, said surface ships will remain on the river ...
The ship was briefly held at the Port of San Antonio in Chile on June 27, 2023, when an inspector found that the pressure gauges for the vessel’s heating system were “unreadable,” a ...
"Big Ben" – USS Franklin; [8] the ship is named after Benjamin Franklin "Big D" – USS Dallas; given to the boat to denote being named in honor of the city of Dallas. "The Big E" – USS Enterprise (CV-6) [9] and USS Enterprise (CVN-65) [10] "The Big J" – USS New Jersey [11] "Big John" – USS John F. Kennedy [12] "Big Lizzie" – HMS ...
The ship's bell was found in the mud, split in half by the explosion, on July 22, 1911. [173] The vessel's memorial silver service, given to the ship in 1891 by the people of Maine, was also retrieved during salvage. [174] Caissons form a cofferdam around the wreck of the Maine in late summer 1912