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USS New Mexico (BB-40), c. 1935, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On 30 June 1914, New Mexico was authorized by the United States Congress. Initially, New Mexico was to have been named California, but she was renamed while under construction. [2] Work on the new ship began on 14 October 1915, with her keel laying at the New York Navy Yard.
USS New Mexico (SSN-779) is a Virginia-class nuclear powered fast-attack submarine of the United States Navy. She is the second U.S. warship named for the 47th state, after the early twentieth century super-dreadnought, USS New Mexico. New Mexico is the sixth vessel of her class, which is intended to replace the older Los Angeles-class. [8]
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 .
One ship and one submarine of the United States Navy have been named USS New Mexico in honor of the state of New Mexico. USS New Mexico (BB-40) was the lead ship of her class of battleship, commissioned in 1918 and struck in 1947. USS New Mexico (SSN-779) is a Virginia-class submarine, commissioned in 2010.
Ships in class: 3: USS New Mexico, USS Mississippi, and USS Idaho; Commissioned: 18 December 1917 (Mississippi) Decommissioned: 17 September 1956 (Mississippi) Fate: New Mexico & Idaho scrapped 1947; Mississippi converted to trials ship (AG-128) 1946, scrapped 1956
English: The U.S. Navy battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40) is hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa, Japan, 12 May 1945. She was set on fire and 54 members of New Mexico's crew were killed, while a further 119 were wounded.
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New Mexico is the second largest crude oil and ninth largest natural gas producer in the United States; [225] it overtook North Dakota in oil production in July 2021 and is expected to continue expanding. [226]