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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 ...
Massachusetts was subsequently designated the Commonwealth's official memorial to veterans of the Gulf War. Soon after the arrival of the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the Mayor of Fall River christened the site “Battleship Cove”. In 1975 Tin Can Sailors, Inc., a national organization of 24,000 destroyer veterans, was founded at Battleship Cove.
The U.S. Navy battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) replenishing from the ammunition ship USS Wrangell (AE-12). Wrangell then retired to San Pedro Bay, Leyte, for upkeep and repairs. Wrangell subsequently returned to the open sea on 8 July 1945 and rendezvoused with TG 30.8 (the redesignated TG 50.8) on the 17th. From 20 July to 1 August 1945 ...
USS Massachusetts (BB-54) would have been a battleship of the first South Dakota class, canceled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1923. USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is a battleship of the second South Dakota class, commissioned in 1942 and which saw action in World War II, now a museum ship in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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USS Massachusetts (BB-59) 20 July 1939 23 September 1941 12 May 1942 27 March 1947 Struck 1 June 1962; Museum ship at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts, since 14 August 1965 USS Alabama (BB-60) 1 February 1940 16 February 1942 16 August 1942 9 January 1947
In the first instance, the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) employed these 16"/45-caliber guns as her primary armament, and she is believed to have fired the United States' first and last 16-inch shells of World War II; [6] the first use occurring on 8 November 1942 during the Naval Battle of Casablanca (shortly before the Naval battle of ...
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