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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship.Completed in 1944, the ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Philippines campaign and the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
USS Wisconsin (BB-9), an Illinois-class pre-dreadnought battleship, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 30th state. She was the third and final member of her class to be built. Her keel was laid down in February 1897 at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, and she was launched in November 1898.
USS Wisconsin opened for main deck tours on April 16, 2001. That date marked the 57th anniversary of the ship's commissioning in 1944. Wisconsin, one of four Iowa-class battleships constructed by the United States Navy, was built from 1941 to 1943 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned in 1944.
USS Wisconsin, photographed at sea in her 1980s configuration. USS Missouri fires her 16-inch guns. The Iowa-class battleships are the most heavily armed warships the United States Navy has ever put to sea, due to the continual development of their onboard weaponry.
USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827) will be the second Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. She is the third vessel of the United States Navy to be named after the state of Wisconsin . [ 2 ] The previous name holder was the Iowa -class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) , which decommissioned in 1991 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2006.
Wisconsin natives Douglas Her (left), CS2, from Dodge County and Arden Hartwig, LTIG, from Pardeeville in the U.S. Navy's newest combat ship, the future USS Beloit (LCS 29), at Veterans Park in ...
USS Wisconsin (BB-9) was an Illinois-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa -class battleship USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827) a planned Columbia -class submarine
Visible in this photo are (pierside, left to right): USS Yorktown, USS Vincennes, USS Valley Forge and USS Bunker Hill. Under construction on shore are USS Mobile Bay and USS Antietam. Ingalls Shipbuilding is a shipyard located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States, originally established in 1938, and now part of HII.