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Master and Commander Posts: 2490 Location: East Coast of Wisconsin | Subject: Uss Washington Have a peek. http://www.historyinorbit.com/get-a-load-of-the-u-s-navys-newest-nuclear-submarine/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=CRAIG_HistoryInOrbit.com-Desktop-US-Sub-A2&utm_term=mediaalert&utm_campaign=US+Navy%27s+Nuclear+Sleeping+Giant | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 3670 Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Uss Washington (fair winds.jpg) Attachments ---------------- fair winds.jpg (158KB - 572 downloads) | ||
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Uss Washington There were 4 Navy vessel named for the State of Washington. Only three were commissioned. USS Washington (ACR-11) was a Tennessee-class armored cruiser, launched in 1905, renamed Seattle in 1916, reclassified as a heavy cruiser in 1920; and scrapped 1946 USS Washington (BB-47) was a Colorado-class battleship launched in 1921 and sunk as a gunnery target in 1924 after her construction was halted in 1922 ( On 8 February 1922, two days after the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armaments, all construction work ceased on the 75.9%-completed superdreadnought. She was sunk as a gunnery target on 26 November 1924, by the battleships New York and Texas. ) USS Washington (BB-56) was a North Carolina-class battleship launched in 1940, decommissioned in 1947, and scrapped in 1961 USS Washington (SSN-787) is a Virginia-class submarine | ||