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USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), was a Barrett Class [1] transport named in honor of Major General William P. Upshur, USMC. [2] [3]The hull of the USNS Upshur was laid down on September 1, 1949 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey as the SS President Hayes.
All eight ships in this class served during World War II, and six ships survived the war. The lead ship of this class, Atlanta, was laid down on 22 April 1940 and launched on 6 September 1941. Atlanta was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 24 December 1941, just a few weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of 7 December.
USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] She is the second US ship to be named Canberra , after the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra , named after the Australian capital [ 6 ] and sunk during the Battle of Savo Island .
After the 1930s "builders holiday," the USN commissioned ten more battleships of an entirely new style, the so-called fast battleship. These ships began with BB-55 North Carolina and the last ship laid down was BB-66 Kentucky (the last completed ship was BB-64 Wisconsin). These ships were a nearly clean break from previous American design ...
Last two ships listed were transferred to the HN in September 2023. [11] [12] All ships rebuilt and upgraded by Salamis Shipyards. [13] [14] Special Operations Craft (13) Mark V SOC: Mark V: HS Aiolos HS Astrapi HS Esperos HS Kentauros: P62 P63 P64 P65: Αίολος Αστραπή Έσπερος Κένταυρος: VT Halter Marine Inc. 4 ...
SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. [6] As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and later was a vocational high school training ship in New York City for many years.
Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960.She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.
The keel for President Coolidge was laid 22 April 1930 and the ship was delivered 1 October 1931. [9] They were the largest merchant ships built in the United States up to that time. [3] [10] Each ship had turbo-electric transmission, with a pair of steam turbo generators generating current that powered propulsion motors on the propeller shafts.