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Alaska was the third vessel of the US Navy to be named after what was then the territory of Alaska, and was assigned the hull number CB-1. She was laid down on 17 December 1941, ten days after the United States entered the war, was launched in August 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation , in Camden, New Jersey , and was commissioned in ...
As built, the Alaska class had nine 12"/50 caliber Mark 8 guns mounted in three triple (3-gun) turrets, [43] with two turrets forward and one aft, a configuration known as "2-A-1". The previous 12" gun manufactured for the U.S. Navy was the Mark 7 version, which had been designed for and installed in the 1912 Wyoming -class battleships.
The gun was first deployed in 1944, on the lead ship of the Alaska class, USS Alaska. [1] The two Alaska-class ships each had nine Mark 8 guns mounted in three triple (3-gun) turrets, with two turrets forward and one aft, a configuration known as "2-A-1". Only two vessels of the class were completed, making them the only applications of the ...
Maritime Museum of San Diego [21] USS Drum: United States Alabama: Mobile: United States: 1941 Gato class: Submarine: USS Alabama Battleship Commission [22] USS Edson: United States Michigan: Bay City: United States: 1958 Forrest Sherman class: Destroyer: TCG Ege: Turkey: Aegean Region: İzmir: United States: 1972 Knox class: Frigate: USS ...
USS Alaska (1868), a wooden-hulled screw sloop-of-war in commission from 1869 to 1883 that saw numerous small actions; USS Alaska (ID-3035), a steam trawler chartered to serve as a minesweeper during World War I, in commission from 1918 to 1919; USS Alaska (CB-1), the lead ship of the Alaska class of large cruisers, in commission from 1944 to ...
The Alaska-class cruisers were six very large cruisers ordered on 9 September 1940. [17] They were known, popularly and by some historians, as "battlecruisers", [18] [19] although the Navy and at least one prominent historian [17] discouraged describing them as such and gave them the hull symbol for large cruisers (CB).
State City Museum Link CAMM; Alabama: Mobile: Battleship Memorial Park: Alabama: Mobile: GulfQuest Maritime Museum: Alaska: Kodiak: Kodiak Maritime Museum: Arkansas
This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like.