Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alaska was the third vessel of the US Navy to be named after what was then the territory of Alaska, and was assigned the hull number CB-1. She was laid down on 17 December 1941, ten days after the United States entered the war, was launched in August 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation , in Camden, New Jersey , and was commissioned in ...
The Alaska-class were six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy (USN), of which only two were completed and saw service late in the war. The USN designation for the ships of this class was 'large cruiser' (CB), a designation unique to the Alaska-class, and the majority of leading reference works consider them as such.
USS Alaska (CB-1) The motivation for the large cruiser concept came from the deployment of Germany's so-called pocket battleships in the early 1930s, and from concerns that Japan would follow with similar ships.
USS Alaska (1868), a wooden-hulled screw sloop-of-war in commission from 1869 to 1883 that saw numerous small actions; USS Alaska (ID-3035), a steam trawler chartered to serve as a minesweeper during World War I, in commission from 1918 to 1919; USS Alaska (CB-1), the lead ship of the Alaska class of large cruisers, in commission from 1944 to ...
Pages in category "Alaska-class cruisers" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... USS Alaska (CB-1) G. USS Guam (CB-2) H. USS Hawaii (CB-3) P.
The U.S. Navy large cruiser USS Alaska (CB-1) recovering a Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk floatplane on 6 March 1945, during the Iwo Jima operation. The aircraft is awaiting pickup by the ship's crane after taxiing onto a landing mat. The pilot was Lieutenant Jess R. Faulconer, Jr., USNR. Removed caption read: Photo # K-3747 USS Alaska recovering an SC-1 ...
The Coast Guard received a mayday call early Sunday from the crew of the 50-foot (15 m) fishing boat Wind Walker, saying that the vessel was overturning in waters just south of Couverden Point in ...
The gun was first deployed in 1944, on the lead ship of the Alaska class, USS Alaska. [1] The two Alaska-class ships each had nine Mark 8 guns mounted in three triple (3-gun) turrets, with two turrets forward and one aft, a configuration known as "2-A-1". Only two vessels of the class were completed, making them the only applications of the ...