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,.
USS Swordfish (SSN-579) - the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the swordfish, a large fish with a long, swordlike beak and a high dorsal fin. (The first was USS Swordfish (SS-193).) The contract to build her was awarded to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard of Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 18 July 1955, and her keel was laid down on 25 January 1956. She was launched on 27 August 1957 sponsored by Mrs. Eugene C. Riders, and commissioned on 15 September 1958 with Commander Shannon D. Cramer, Jr., in command. Swordfish completed fitting out and held her shakedown in the Atlantic. After post-shakedown availability and subsequent sea trials along the east coast, she was assigned a home port in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, effective 16 March 1959. She steamed to Hawaii in.
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - Portsmouth Naval Shipyard The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for building, remodeling, and repairing the Navy's ships..
Portsmouth - Portsmouth This article is about the English city of Portsmouth. For other places with the same name, please see Portsmouth (disambiguation). Portsmouth is a city of about 186,000 located on the southern coast of England, a major conurbation and dockyard and a major naval base for the Royal Navy. Portsmouth has a been a significant naval port for centuries, although it is less significant than it once was. Previously Portsmouth had the World's largest naval base and many famous ships were based here. Portsmouth Naval Dockyard. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Geography 2 Name 3 History 3.1 Early history of the area 3.2 Growth of the city 3.3 War with France 3.4 Recent history 4 Chronology 5 Government 6 Population 7 Tourist Attractions 8 Shopping 9.
USS Ponce (LPD-15) - dock, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, the discoverer of Florida and first governor of Puerto Rico. Her keel was laid down on 31 October 1966 by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington. She was launched on 20 May 1970 sponsored by Mrs. John J. Hyland, and commissioned on 10 July 1971. Need information from 1971 to 1982 On 2 February 1982 during a towing exercise while en route to Portsmouth, England, Ponce collided with USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30), causing minor damage to Ponce's port side, mainly to the accommodation ladder and flight deck catwalk. Need information from 1982 to.
USS Annapolis (SSN-760) - attack submarine of the United States Navy, on active service as of 2003. The keel was laid down by Electric Boat at Groton, Connecticut on 15 June 1988, and the boat launched 18 May 1991, and commissioned 11 April 1992. She is presently homeported at Groton. The boat entered Portsmouth Navy Yard for maintenance on 23 April 2003. See USS Annapolis for other Navy ships of the same name..
Newport News Shipbuilding - carriers. It is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. In the 1880s, Collis P. Huntington created the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad to transfer coal from the Ohio River valley to Newport News, Virginia. In 1886, he built a shipyard to repair ships servicing this transportation hub. In 1891, Newport News Shipbuilding delivered its first ship, a tugboat named Dorothy. By 1897, NNS had built three warships for the U.S. Navy: USS Nashville, USS Wilmington, and USS Helena. In 1906, the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought launched a great naval race worldwide. Between 1907 and 1923, Newport News built six of the Navy's total of 22 dreadnoughts -- USS Delaware, USS Texas, USS Pennsylvania, USS Mississippi, USS Maryland, and USS West Virginia.
Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling, and repairing the Navy's ships. Its Web site is http://www.nnsy1.navy.mil/..
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,.
USS Argonaut (SS-475) - (SS-475) was a Tench-class submarine. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Navy Yard on 28 June 1944. She was launched on 1 October 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Allan R. McCann and commissioned 15 January 1945, with Lieutenant Commander John S. Schmidt in command. Argonaut held shakedown in the Portsmouth area and in Narragansett Bay and returned briefly to Portsmouth on 27 March for post-shakedown availability. She then sailed on 14 April for Key West, Florida, where she conducted special tests for lighter-than-air craft and training operations with the Fleet Sound School. Argonaut departed the Florida coast on 13 May to transit the Panama Canal en route Hawaii. Reaching Pearl Harbor on 11 June, the submarine spent two weeks in repairs and training exercises before beginning her first war patrol on 28.
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 Delaware (BB-28) - (BB-28) The sixth United States Navy ship Delaware (BB-28) was a battleship launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1924. Delaware was launched 6 February 1909 by Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia; sponsored by Mrs. A. P. Cahall, niece of the Governor of Delaware; and commissioned 4 April 1910, Captain C. A. Gove in command. After visiting Wilmington, Delaware, from 3 to 9 October 1910, to receive a gift of a silver service from the state, Delaware sailed from Hampton Roads 1 November with the First Division, Atlantic Fleet, to visit Weymouth, England, and Cherbourg, France, and after battle practice at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returned to Norfolk, Virginia 18 January 1911. She departed 31 January to carry the remains of Chilean Minister ? Cruz to Valparaiso, sailing by way of.
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 California (ACR-6) - The second USS California (ACR-6), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser. She was launched 28 April 1904 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, sponsored by Miss F. Pardee, and commissioned 1 August 1907, Captain V. L. Cottman in command. Joining the 2nd Division, Pacific Fleet, California took part in the naval review at San Francisco in May 1908 for the Secretary of the Navy. Aside from a cruise to Hawaii and Samoa in the fall of 1908, the cruiser operated along the west coast, sharpening her readiness through training exercises and drills, until December 1911, when she sailed for Honolulu, and in March 1912 continued westward for duty on the Asiatic Station. After this service representing.
USS Shangri-La (CV-38) - a reporter's question by saying that the raid had come from "Shangri-La", the faraway land of the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon. She was laid down by the Norfolk Navy Yard, at Portsmouth, Virginia, on 15 January 1943, launched on 24 February 1944, sponsored by Josephine Doolittle (wife of Jimmy Doolittle), and commissioned on 15 September 1944, Captain James D. Barner in command. Shangri-La completed fitting out at Norfolk and took her shakedown cruise to Trinidad, between 15 September and 21 December 1944, at which time she returned to Norfolk. On 17 January 1945, she stood out of Hampton Roads, formed up with Guam (CB-2) and Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748), and sailed for Panama. The three ships arrived at Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, on the 23d and transited the canal on.
USS Amsterdam (CL-101) - guns, 10 x 20mm guns The USS Amsterdam (CL-101) was a United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser, the last of the class to see action in World War II. The ship was laid down on 3 March 1943 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, launched on 25 April 1944, sponsored by Mrs. William E. Hasenfuss (the first "Gold Star Mother" of Amsterdam, New York, who had lost her son William E. Hasenfuss, Jr in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor), and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard Portsmouth, Virginia, on 8 January 1945, Captain Andrew P. Lawton in command. After final fitting out at Norfolk, the cruiser got underway on 5 February for shakedown training in the Chesapeake Bay. On 17 February, she stood out.
USS Yorktown (CV-10) - fourth USS Yorktown (CV-10) (also CVS-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, now a museum ship in South Carolina. She was laid down on 1 December 1941 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Bon Homme Richard, renamed Yorktown on 26 September 1942 to commemorate her lost predecessor, launched on 21 January 1943, sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, and commissioned on 15 April 1943 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Captain Joseph J. (Jocko) Clark in command. Yorktown remained in the Norfolk area until 21 May at which time she got underway for shakedown training in the vicinity of Trinidad. She returned to Norfolk on 17 June and began post-shakedown availability. The aircraft carrier completed repairs on 1 July and began air operations.
