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Mississippi. (BB-41) USS Mississippi (BB-41/AG-128), the second of three members of the New Mexico class of battleship, was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 20th state. The ship was built at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Newport News, Virginia, from her keel laying in April 1915, her launching in January ...
12 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns (12×1) 6 × 3-pounders. 2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The Mississippi class of battleships comprised two ships which were authorized in the 1903 naval budget: Mississippi and Idaho; these were named for the 20th and 43rd states, respectively. These were the last pre-dreadnought battleships to be designed for ...
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.
Greek battleship. Kilkis. USS Mississippi (BB-23) was the lead ship of the Mississippi class originally built by the US Navy in 1904–1908. The class was built to a design smaller than other American battleships as the result of a limit on displacement imposed by Congress as part of an effort to constrain costs.
The New Mexico class was a class of three super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1910s. The class comprised three ships: New Mexico, the lead ship, Mississippi, and Idaho. Part of the standard series, they were in most respects copies of the Pennsylvania -class battleships that immediately preceded them ...
USS Mississippi (1841) was a sidewheel frigate that saw action in the Mexican–American War and was lost during the American Civil War. USS Mississippi (BB-23) was the lead ship of the Mississippi class of battleships, saw action before World War I and was eventually sold to Greece. USS Mississippi (BB-41) was a New Mexico -class battleship ...
Colorado-class battleship. Iowa-class battleship. Nevada-class battleship. New Mexico-class battleship. New York-class battleship. North Carolina-class battleship. Pennsylvania-class battleship. South Dakota-class battleship (1939) Tennessee-class battleship.
Main achievements include damage to the battleship USS Mississippi on 5 June, one escort aircraft carrier and the heavy cruiser USS Louisville on 5 June. In the Okinawa land offensive, the United States had taken the prefectural capital, Naha, and the Japanese were forced into the southernmost tip of Okinawa Island.