1970 USS AYLWI N. A member of the Knox class of 46 large anti-submarine frigates, construction of which spanned almost a decade from the mid 1960s.
THE KNOX CLASS
Design of what was to become the Knox class began at the start of the 1 960s, and was to be controversial right from the start...
1970 USS SAVANNAH. USS Savannah was one of a class of seven fleet replenishment oilers, led by the Wichita, which went into service with the
US Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
THE WICHITA CLASS
Along with five of her six sisters, the Savannah (AOR4) was built by General Dynamics...
1944 USS MISSOURI. Missouri, or Mighty Mo, gained immortality when the Japanese surrender was signed aboard her in Tokyo Bay in August 1945. She is now a museum at Pearl Harbour.
A TWO-OCEAN NAVY
In 1940, authority was given by Congress to the US Navy to build six 45,000t battleships to...
1943-1991 A Giant among Ships: The odyssey of the USS New Jersey, from the Pacific to the Mediterranean.
Laid down at Philadelphia Navy Yard in September 1940, New Jersey (BB 62) was the second of the mighty Iowas, the biggest, fastest battleships the US Navy ever had, with the most powerful...
1986 USS LEYTE GULF. Named after the scene of two sea battles between the Japanese and American fleets in World War I the Leyte Gulf (CGS5) of the Ticonderoga class was laid down in 1985, launched in 1986 and commissioned in 1987.
1984 USS VINCENNES. An Aegis guided-missile cruiser, USS Vincennes was the
third ship of the Ticonderoga class, the most powerful anti-aircraft ships afloat.
THE US NAVYS AEGIS SHIPS
The Aegis system mated very powerful computers and radar systems with a new generation of missiles, and...
1965 USS BIDDLE. Last of the nine ships of the Belknap class, originally categorised as destroyer leaders - big, fast ships intended primarily to defend the fleet carriers from air attack.
THE BELKNAP CLASS
he Belknaps were intended, originally, to be cheaper alternatives to the Charles F...
1942 USS BALTIMORE .The class of 18 ships laid down between 1941 and 1945 of which USS Baltimore was the leader was to have a long life, many serving as flagships and fire support ships during the Vietnam War.
THE BALTIMORE CLASS
In all the class contained 14 identical ships and four which...
1922 USS DETROIT. One of the ten-strong Omaha class of scouting cruisers, begun in the last year of the First World War to make good a deficit in the
US Navy amongst ships of this type.
THE OMAHA CLASS
In 1916 the US Congress passed a huge Navy Bill, one product of which was the Omaha...
The Tennessee-class cruisers were four armored cruisers built for the United States Navy between 1903 and 1906. Their main armament of four 10-inch (254 mm) guns in twin turrets was the heaviest carried by any American armored cruiser. (USS Maine, which had been designated an armored cruiser...
1888 USS PHILADELPHIA. Originally rigged as a three-masted schooner, Philadelphia had a very short active career, spending most of her life as a receiving ship in Puget Sound Navy Yard.
DESIGNED IN GREAT BRITAIN
The United States New Navy, created in 1883, had a singular lack of success...
1993 USS FITZGERALD. One of a large class - the Arleigh Burkes of guidedmissile destroyers, the most sophisticated of their type in the world at the end of the twentieth century, put into service by the US Navy from 1991.
THE ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS
Planned to complement the Ticonderoga-class...
1973 USS SPRUANCE. Too big and poorly armed was the general view of the 31
ships that made up the Spruance class, but the addition of launchers for Tomahawk cruise missiles improved them.
TYPE SCN-275
On 23 June 1 970, giant US defence contractor Litton Industries received a contract to...
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