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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 Maryland (BB-46) underway in 1935 History United States Name Maryland Namesake Maryland Ordered 5 December 1916 Builder Newport News Shipbuilding Laid down 24 April 1917 Launched 20 March 1920 Commissioned 21 July 1921 Decommissioned 3 April 1947 Fate Sold for scrap, 8 July 1959 General characteristics Class and type Colorado -class battleship Displacement 32,600 long tons (33,100 t ...
Image credits: SapereAudeAdAbsurdum "I also suspect that even people who don't classify themselves as having megalophobia still get that little touch of vertigo when seeing some of the sub's content."
TOKYO (AP) - A former crewmember on a Japanese battleship that sank during World War II says he recognizes photos taken of wreckage discovered this week off the Philippines by a team led by ...
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 ...
On September 10, 1999, the Battleship Commission selected Bayonne as the site for the battleship New Jersey. People from South Jersey were not pleased with the ruling, as many of the people who voted on where the battleship would end up were from North Jersey. The commission decided that the Navy would decide where the battleship will end up. [3]
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