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USS. New York. (LPD-21) Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget. two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, fore and aft. four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters. USS New York (LPD-21) is a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock, and the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the state of New York. [5][1]
New York. (BB-34) USS New York (BB-34) was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class. Named for New York State, she was designed as the first ship to carry the 14-inch (356 mm)/45-caliber gun. Entering service in 1914, she was part of the U.S. Navy force which was sent to reinforce the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea near ...
USS New York (ACR-2), off New York City during the victory fleet review, August 1898. USS New York (ACR-2/CA-2) was the second United States Navy armored cruiser so designated; the first was the ill-fated Maine, which was soon redesignated a second-class battleship. Due to the unusually protracted construction of Maine, New York was actually ...
Two American-built pre-dreadnought battleships, USS Mississippi (BB-23) and her sister USS Idaho (BB-24), were sunk in 1941 by German bombers during their World War II invasion of Greece. The ships had been sold to Greece in 1914, becoming Kilkis and Lemnos respectively.
SS New York (1916), oil tanker, owned by Texaco until broken up in 1950. [6] SS New York (1919), former name of Pan Kraft, an American cargo ship bombed and sunk by Germany in 1942. SS New York (1921), later name of 16,991 GRT transatlantic liner Tuscania. SS New York (1924), a passenger liner of Eastern Steamship Lines, sunk by the German ...
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 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was an American shipbuilding company that operated from 1899 to 1968, ultimately completing more than 500 vessels for the U.S. Navy, the United States Merchant Marine, the United States Coast Guard, and other maritime concerns. At its peak during World War II, NYSB was the ...
Yard and district craft. v. t. e. 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.