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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 435 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 90 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 70 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
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.
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.
These designs were formally designated as battlecruisers by the Dutch and Soviets and as large cruisers by the Japanese and Americans, but all were roughly equivalent and all were commonly called battlecruisers. The US Navy's main impetus for the Alaska class was the threat posed by Japanese cruisers raiding its lines of communication in the ...
USS South Carolina (BB-26) was the lead ship of her class, and, when commissioned in 1910, was the first American modern "dreadnought" battleship, a type of battleship armed with eight or more major caliber guns, pioneered by the British Royal Navy, which made all previous battleships obsolete.
During the first half of the 20th century, many navies constructed or planned to build battlecruisers: large capital ships with greater speed but less armor than dreadnought battleships. The first battlecruisers, the Invincible class , were championed by the British First Sea Lord John Fisher and appeared in 1908, two years after the ...
Pages in category "Lists of ships of the United States Navy" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
For similar lists of 'miscellaneous' ships see. List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy § Miscellaneous ships (AG, T-AG) and. List of unclassified miscellaneous vessels of the United States Navy (IX) Tatoosh [2] YAG-2, lost due to enemy action in the Philippines [1] [3] YAG-3, lost due to enemy action in the Philippines [4]