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Abraham Lincoln [note 1] has three USS President Lincoln, commissioned 1917, sunk 1918. USS Abraham Lincoln, in commission 1961–1981. George Washington-class ballistic missile submarine; USS Abraham Lincoln, commissioned in 1989. Nimitz-class supercarrier; Ulysses S. Grant has the following vessels named for him;
USS LCT-209 was a Landing Craft Tank Mk V built by Bison Shipbuilding of Buffalo NY. The keel was laid in September 1942 and the vessel was launched in October 1942. LCT-209 served as part of Force O-2 at Fox Green sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
US Navy Ships named after US States State Currently Commissioned Formerly Commissioned Remarks Alabama SSBN-731: BB-60, SP-1052, BB-8 Alaska SSBN-732: CB-1 and ID-3035 were named for the Territory of Alaska, not the state
USS Omaha (CL-4) was the lead ship of the Omaha-class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was originally classified as a scout cruiser . She was the second US Navy ship named for the city of Omaha, Nebraska , the first being Omaha , a screw sloop launched in 1869.
USS Omaha (LCS-12) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the fourth ship to be named for Omaha , the largest city in Nebraska . The vessel's keel was laid down on 18 February 2015 at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama and launched on 20 November.
The Omaha class was designed specifically in response to the British Centaur subclass of the C-class cruiser. Although from a modern viewpoint, a conflict between the US and Great Britain seems implausible, US Navy planners during this time, and up to the mid-1930s, considered Britain to be a formidable rival for power in the Atlantic, and the ...