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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 Montana-class ships would have been built to a 60,000-ton post-Panamax design, and carried a greater number of guns (twelve 16-inch guns) and heavier armor than the other ships; otherwise they would have been homogeneous with the rest of the World War II battleships.
The US Navy had already begun design work on the successors to the South Dakotas in 1937, which was to become the Iowa class; the Navy sought larger, faster ships that would handily exceed the 35,000 long tons (36,000 t) limit on battleship displacement imposed under the Washington Treaty system. Because Japan had already refused to abide by ...
United States Navy: Tarawa class: 5: Amphibious assault ship: 254 m (833 ft) 39,400: 2 in reserve, 2 scrapped, 1 sunk United States Navy: Kirov class: 4: Battlecruiser: 252 m (827 ft) 28,000: 1 in service, 1 in refit, 2 scrapped Russian Navy: Yorktown class: 3: Aircraft carrier: 251.38 m (824.7 ft) 25,500: 2 sunk, 1 scrapped United States Navy ...
The shell weighed 1,900 pounds (862 kg), had an estimated yield of 15 to 20 kilotons of TNT (63,000 to 84,000 GJ), [43] and its introduction made the Iowa-class battleships' 16-inch guns the world's largest nuclear artillery [44] and made these four battleships the only US Navy ships ever to have nuclear shells for naval guns. [44]
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns ...
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the lead ship of her class. The ship is named after the 38th President of the United States , Gerald Ford , whose World War II naval service included combat duty aboard the light aircraft carrier Monterey in the Pacific Theater .