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English: California suffered damage an intense squall broke its moorings and the ship collided with USS Thomas C. Hart (FF1092) docked at the same pier. Date 23 May 2023
USS California (BB-44) was the second of two Tennessee-class battleships built for the United States Navy between her keel laying in October 1916 and her commissioning in August 1921. The Tennessee class was part of the standard series of twelve battleships built in the 1910s and 1920s, and were developments of the preceding New Mexico class.
USS California and her sister ship, USS South Carolina were equipped with two single-armed Mk 13 launchers, fore and aft, for the Standard Missile, one ASROC missile launcher, and two Mk-141 launchers for the Harpoon missiles. These cruisers were equipped with two 5-inch/54 calibre Mk 45 guns rapid-fire cannons, fore and aft. The two cruisers ...
Navy photographs of California at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2014-07-04) Photo gallery of USS 'California / San Diego' at NavSource Naval History; hazegray.org: USS California / San Diego; USS San Diego Lost at Sea Memorial Unveiled (23 May 2019), video produced for U.S. WWI Centennial Commission. USS San Diego Shipwreck ...
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Civilian victims were Mrs. Andrew L. Clark, 62, who was alone in her home at 211 Colonial Court, where a major portion of the plane fell, and James LaRoy Hollabaugh, 29, adopted son of Mrs. Agnes Nilsson Grove of 1920 Maryland Avenue. Both of those houses were destroyed by fire but Mrs. Grove escaped with burns on her feet and abrasions on her ...
In 2015, the Navy began the process of identifying sailors killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. At that time, 388 service members were unidentified; today fewer than three dozen have not been identified.
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