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USS Pittsburgh (CA-72), originally named USS Albany (CA-72), was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser of the US Navy and the third ship to bear the name. She was laid down on 3 February 1943 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts, launched on 22 February 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Cornelius D. Scully, wife of the Mayor of Pittsburgh and commissioned in ...
USS Pittsburgh (CA-72), originally named Albany, was a Baltimore-class cruiser that served during World War II, and notable for losing her bow in a typhoon, and yet surviving. USS Pittsburgh (SSN-720) was a Los Angeles -class submarine decommissioned in 2019.
Pittsburg (formerly Black Diamond, New York Landing and New York of the Pacific) [8] is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.It is an industrial suburb located on the southern shore of the Suisun Bay in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is part of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta area, the Eastern Contra Costa County area, and the San Francisco ...
POSCO (formerly Pohang Iron and Steel Company) is a South Korean steel manufacturer headquartered in Pohang, South Korea.It had an output of 42,000,000 metric tons (41,000,000 long tons; 46,000,000 short tons) of crude steel in 2015, making it the world's sixth-largest steelmaker by this measure. [2]
The second USS Pennsylvania (ACR/CA-4), also referred to as Armored Cruiser No. 4, and later renamed Pittsburgh, was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class. She was originally assigned the name Nebraska but was renamed Pennsylvania on 7 March 1901.
USS Pittsburgh demonstrates an emergency main ballast tank blow in 1991. Pittsburgh was officially deactivated on 17 January 2020 at the Undersea Warfare Museum in Keyport, Washington, and awaited the Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. She was later decommissioned on 15 April 2020 and the crew ...
USS Pittsburgh (LPD-31), a Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock for the United States Navy, will be the fifth United States Navy vessel named after Pittsburgh. Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite officially announced multiple ship names, including Pittsburgh , during his visit to the oldest U.S. Navy commissioned ship ...
USS Mount Hood (AE-11) – 1944 explosion of Navy ammunition ship in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea USS Turner (DD-648) – 1943 naval explosion in Lower New York Bay West Loch disaster – 1944 ammunition explosion in Pearl Harbor , two months before Port Chicago