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  2. USS Grand Rapids (PG-98) - Wikipedia

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    2 × twin .50 caliber machine guns. The second USS Grand Rapids (PGM-98/PG-98) was an Asheville -class gunboat in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War . On 13 June 1968, the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington laid down Grand Rapids, the eleventh Asheville -class gunboat built by Tacoma. In August 1968, however, the Tacoma ...

  3. List of battleships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    Missouri (BB-63), famous for being the ship on which the Japanese instrument of surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommissioned on 31 March 1992. Seven of these ten ships are still in existence. South Dakota, Washington and Indiana were scrapped, but the remainder are now museum ships.

  4. USS North Carolina (BB-55) - Wikipedia

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    USS North Carolina (BB-55) is the lead ship of the North Carolina class of fast battleships, the first vessel of the type built for the United States Navy.Built under the Washington Treaty system, North Carolina ' s design was limited in displacement and armament, though the United States used a clause in the Second London Naval Treaty to increase the main battery from the original armament of ...

  5. Maximum battleship - Wikipedia

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    "Maximum Battleship" Design no.1. The "Maximum Battleships," also known as the "Tillman Battleships," were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 upon the order of Senator "Pitchfork" Benjamin Tillman [1] by the Bureau of Construction and Repair (C&R) of the United States Navy. [2]

  6. USS Missouri (BB-63) - Wikipedia

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    USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa -class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled ...

  7. USS Delaware (BB-28) - Wikipedia

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    USS. Delaware. (BB-28) USS Delaware (BB-28) was a dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. She was laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in November 1907, launched in January 1909, and completed in April 1910. The sixth ship to be named for the First State, Delaware was armed with a main battery of ten 12 ...

  8. USS Oregon (BB-3) - Wikipedia

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    USS Oregon (BB-3) was the third and final member of the Indiana class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1890s. The three ships were built as part of a modernization program aimed at strengthening the American fleet to prepare for a possible conflict with a European navy. Designed for short-range operations ...

  9. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Wikipedia

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    USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was the lead ship of the Pennsylvania class of super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1910s. The Pennsylvanias were part of the standard-type battleship series, and marked an incremental improvement over the preceding Nevada class, carrying an extra pair of 14-inch (356 mm) guns for a total of twelve guns.

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