USS Wasp (CV-18) - 55 x 20mm guns Aircraft: 80+ The ninth USS Wasp (CV-18) of the United States Navy was an Essex-class aircraft carrier. The ship was laid down as Oriskany on 18 March 1942 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Steel Company; renamed Wasp on 13 November 1942, in honor of her fallen predecessor CV-7, launched on 17 August 1943, sponsored by Miss Julia M. Walsh, the sister of Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, and commissioned on 24 November 1943, Captain Clifton A. F. Sprague in command. Following a shakedown cruise which lasted through the end of 1943, Wasp returned to Boston for a brief yard period to correct minor flaws which had been discovered during her time at sea. On 10 January 1944 the new aircraft carrier departed Boston; steamed to.
USS Wyoming (BB-32) - battleship was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 44th state. Her keel was laid down on 9 February 1910 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by William Cramp and Sons. She was launched on 25 May 1911 sponsored by Miss Dorothy Eunice Knight, the daughter of former Chief Justice Jesse Knight of the Wyoming Supreme Court, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 September 1912 with Captain Frederick L. Chapin in command. Wyoming departed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 October and completed the fitting-out process at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, before she joined the fleet in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Reaching the Tidewater area on 30 December 1912, she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, Commander, United States Atlantic Fleet,.
Norfolk, Virginia - Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk is a city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America. It is an independent city, and therefore part of no county. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 234,403. Norfolk is located on the Elizabeth River, on Hampton Roads. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Geography 3 Demographics 4 External Links History The site of what is now Norfolk was originally the Chesipean Indian town Skicoak. The Chesipeans had been destroyed by Powhatan by the time of the arrival of the first English settlers, who, in 1585, settled on Roanoke Island. In 1591, the colony of Roanoke had disappeared without a trace. The city was laid out in 1682. In 1862, the battle.
History of the United States Navy - History of the United States Navy The history of the United States Navy divides into two major periods: the "Old Navy", a small but respected force of sailing ships that was also notable for innovation in the use of ironclads during the American Civil War, and the "New Navy", the result of a modernization effort that began in the 1880s and eventually made the US Navy the most powerful in the world. Revolutionary War The Navy actually predates the United States itself; in 1775 the Continental Congress passed a resolution urging the individual colonies to build and equip fleets, followed on August 26 by a resolution from Rhode Island that there be a single Continental fleet. In the meantime, George Washington had begun to acquire ships, starting with the.
USS North Carolina (ACR-12) - torpedo tubes The second USS North Carolina (ACR-12), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 12", later renamed Charlotte and designated CA-12, was a Tennessee-class armored cruiser of the United States Navy. The ship was laid down 21 March 1905 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, launched 6 October 1906, sponsored by Miss Rebekah Glenn, daughter of the Governor of North Carolina R. B. Glenn, and commissioned at Norfolk 7 May 1908, Captain William A. Marshall in command. Following shakedown along the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean, North Carolina carried President-elect William Howard Taft on an inspection tour to the Panama Canal in January and February 1909. Between 23 April and 3 August, the new cruiser cruised the Mediterranean. Sailing with Montana (ACR-13) to protect.
USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) - 8 x 5-inch guns, 8 x .50-cal MGs The USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) was a United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser. She was laid down on 3 September 1931 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Co, launched on 15 November 1933, sponsored by Mrs. Thomas Lee McCann (wife of Lt. Thomas L. McCann and the niece of the Hon. William Bacon Oliver, Representative of the 6th District of Alabama), and commissioned on 17 August 1934, Captain John N. Ferguson in command. Tuscaloosa devoted the autumn to a shakedown cruise which took her to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, before she returned to the New York Navy Yard shortly before Christmas. She then underwent post-shakedown repairs which kept her in the yard into March 1935. The heavy.
USS America (CV-66) - missile launchers Aircraft: about 75 The third USS America (CV-66), originally CVA-66, was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served from 1965 to 1996. She was laid down on 1 January 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., launched on 1 February 1964, sponsored by Mrs. David L. McDonald, wife of Admiral David L. McDonald, the Chief of Naval Operations, and commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 23 January 1965, Captain Lawrence Heyworth, Jr, in command. After fitting out there until 15 March 1965, America remained in Hampton Roads for operations off the Virginia capes until getting underway on 25 March. She conducted her first catapult launch on 5 April 1965, with Comdr. Kenneth B. Austin, the carrier's executive officer,.
Edwin Anderson, Jr. - Anderson advanced slowly up the promotion ladder, such advancements in those times being received on basis of seniority; he remained an ensign for ten years before becoming a lieutenant, junior grade. Detached from Columbia (Cruiser No. 12), Anderson reported on board Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) on 28 January 1897, and was serving in that ship at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in the spring of 1898. At that time, the United States Navy threw a blockade around Cuba. By early May 1898, Marblehead was operating off the south coast of that island, off the port of Cienfuegos -- a cable terminus important to Spanish communications -- in company with the converted yacht Eagle, Nashville (Gunboat No. 7), the revenue cutter Windom and the collier Saturn. To sever.
USS Atik (AK-101) - was a Q-ship of the United States Navy named for al-Atik, a double star in the constellation Perseus. See also her twin sister ship, USS Asterion (AK-100). The steel-hulled, single-screw steamer Carolyn was laid down on March 15, 1912 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the A.K. Bull Steamship Lines; launched on July 3, 1912, sponsored by Miss Carolyn Bull (for whom the ship was probably named), a granddaughter of the shipping firm's owner, Archibald Hilton Bull (1847-1920), and delivered on July 20, 1912. For the next 30 years, Carolyn carried freight and passengers between the West Indies and ports on the eastern seaboard of the United States. During World War I, she received a main battery of a three-inch and a five-inch.
USS Big Horn (AO-45) - was a Q-ship of the United States Navy named for the Big Horn River of Wyoming and Montana. Gulfdawn, a single-screw oil tanker, was built in 1936 at Chester, Pennsylvania, by the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp. and operated by the Gulf Oil Corporation. Acquired by the Navy on 31 March 1942, she was renamed Big Horn and given the hull designation symbol AO-45 on 3 April 1942. Her conversion began at the Bethlehem Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York. She was commissioned 15 April 1942, under the command of Commander James A. Gainard, USNR, formerly master of City of Flint, which had become the center of an international incident at the beginning of the war, and was later sunk by a U-boat. Sailing to Boston on 23 April, Big Horn entered.
USS Texas (BB-35) - Company. She was launched on 18 May 1912 sponsored by Miss Claudia Lyon, and commissioned on 12 March 1914 with Captain Albert W. Grant in command. On 24 March, Texas departed the Norfolk Navy Yard and set a course for New York City. She made an overnight stop at Tompkinsville, New York, on the night of 26 March and entered the New York Navy Yard on the next day. She spent the next three weeks there undergoing the installation of the fire control equipment. During her stay in New York, President of the United States Woodrow Wilson ordered a number of ships of the Atlantic Fleet to Mexican waters in response to tension created when an overzealous detail of Mexican Federal troops detained an American boat crew at Tampico. The problem.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - tubes The second USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was the lead ship of her class of US Navy "superdreadnought" battleships. She was laid down 27 October 1913, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 16 March 1915, sponsored by Elizabeth Kolb (daughter of Colonel Louis J. Kolb of Philadelphia), and commissioned 12 June 1916, with Captain H. B. Wilson in command. Pennsylvania was attached to the Atlantic Fleet. On 12 October, 1916, she became flagship of Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, when Admiral Henry T. Mayo shifted his flag from Wyoming to Pennsylvania. In January 1917, Pennsylvania steamed for Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea. She returned to her base at Yorktown, Virginia, 6 April 1917, the day of declaration of war against.
USS Alabama (BB-60) - was laid down on February 1, 1940 by the Norfolk Navy Yard; launched on February 16, 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Lister Hill, wife of the senior Senator from Alabama; and commissioned on August 16, 1942, Capt. George B. Wilson in command. After fitting out, Alabama commenced her shakedown cruise in Chesapeake Bay on Armistice Day (11 November) 1942. As the year 1943 began, the new battleship headed north to conduct operational training out of Casco Bay, Maine. She returned to Chesapeake Bay on 11 January 1943 to carry out the last week of shakedown training. Following a period of availability and logistics support at Norfolk, Alabama was assigned to Task Group (TG) 22.2, and returned to Casco Bay for tactical maneuvers on 13 February 1943. With the movement of substantial British.
USS Virginia (BB-13) - Virginia (BB-13) was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class of five. She was laid down on 21 May 1902 Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia; launched on 6 April 1904; sponsored by Miss Gay Montague, daughter of the Governor of Virginia; and commissioned on 7 May 1906, Capt. Seaton Schroeder in command. After fitting out, Virginia conducted her shakedown cruise in Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, off Newport, Rhode Island, and off Long Island, New York before she put into Bradford, Rhode Island, for coal on 9 August. After running trials for the standardization of her screws off Rockland, Maine, the battleship maneuvered in Long Island Sound before anchoring off President Theodore Roosevelt's home, Oyster Bay, Long Island, from 2 to 4 September, for.
USS Utah (BB-31) - the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the US State of Utah. Her keel was laid down on 9 March 1909 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Company. She was launched on 23 December 1909 sponsored by Miss Mary Alice Spry, daughter of Governor William Spry of Utah, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 31 August 1911 with Captain William S. Benson in command. After a shakedown cruise that took her to Hampton Roads, Santa Rosa Island, and Pensacola, Florida; Galveston, Texas; Kingston, Jamaica and Portland Bight; and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Utah was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet in March 1912. She operated with the Fleet early that spring, conducting exercises in gunnery and torpedo defense, before she entered the New.
USS Yorktown (CV-5) - sunk at the Battle of Midway. She was laid down on 21 May 1934 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; launched on 4 April 1936; sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt; and commissioned at the Naval Operating Base (NOB), Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 September 1937, Capt. Ernest D. McWhorter in command. After fitting out, the aircraft carrier trained in Hampton Roads, Virginia and in the southern drill grounds off the Virginia capes into January of 1938, conducting carrier qualifications for her newly embarked air group. Yorktown sailed for the Caribbean on 8 January 1938 and arrived at Culebra, Puerto Rico, on 13 January. Over the ensuing month, the carrier conducted her shakedown, touching at Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Gonaives, Haiti; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Cristobal,.
USS Mississippi (BB-41) - the United States Navy named in honor of the 20th state. Her keel was laid down 5 April 1915 by Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 25 January 1917 sponsored by Miss Camelle McBeath, and commissioned on 18 December 1917 with Captain J.L. Jayne in command. Following exercises off Virginia, Mississippi steamed 22 March 1918 for training in the Gulf of Guacanayabo, Cuba. One month later she returned to Hampton Roads and cruised between Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City until departing for winter maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea on 31 January 1919. On 19 July she left the Atlantic seaboard and sailed for the west coast. Arriving at her new base, San Pedro, California, she operated along the west coast for the next four.
USS Macedonian - Macedonian The USS Macedonian was a United States Navy 38-gun sailing frigate, originally the HMS Macedonian of the Royal Navy, captured by Stephen Decatur in the War of 1812. (Frigate: tonnage 1,325; length 161'6"; beam 40'; depth of hold 18'4"; complement 306; armament 38 guns) Macedonian (sometimes spelled Macendonian) was built in Great Britain in September 1810, captured off the Canary Islands by 44-gun frigate United States, Commodore Stephen Decatur in command, 25 October 1812, arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, as a prize 4 December 1812, and taken into service by April 1813, Captain Jacob Jones in command. Macedonian made one futile attempt with United States and sloop Hornet to break the British blockade by way of Hell Gate, New York, 24 May 1813. She then remained in the River Thames,.
USS Saratoga (CV-3) - 81 The fifth USS Saratoga (CV-3), was the third aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down on 25 September 1920 as Battle Cruiser #3 by the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey, ordered converted to an aircraft carrier and reclassified CV-3 on 1 July 1922 in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty limiting naval armaments, launched on 7 April 1925, sponsored by Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, and commissioned on 16 November 1927, Captain Harry E. Yarnell in command. Saratoga, the first fast carrier in the Navy, quickly proved the value of her type. She sailed from Philadelphia on 6 January 1928 for shakedown; and, on 11 January, her air officer, the future World War II hero, Marc A. Mitscher,.
USS Alaska (CB-1) - The third USS Alaska (CB-1) was one of a class of two "large cruisers" in the United States Navy, a design with a main battery much heavier than than of normal heavy cruisers, but lighter and faster than a battleship. Often referred to as a battlecruiser. She was laid down on 17 December 1941 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 15 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Ernest Gruening, wife of the Honorable Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 17 June 1944, Captain Peter K. Fischler in command. Following post-commissioning fitting out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Alaska stood down the Delaware River on 6 August 1944, bound for Hampton Roads, escorted by Simpson (DD-221) and Broome (DD-210). She.
