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Arizona has been the name of three ships of the United States Navy and will be the name of a future submarine.
USS New York may refer to:
USS Cleveland may refer to:
USS Chesapeake may refer to:
USS America may refer to:
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Bunker Hill, in remembrance of the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War:
USS Bonita has been the name of more than one ship of the United States Navy, and may refer to:
USS Grayling has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
USS Cachalot (SC-4/SS-170), the lead ship of her class and one of the "V-boats", was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sperm whale. Her keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 19 October 1933 as V-8 (SC-4) sponsored by Miss K. D. Kempff, and commissioned on 1 December 1933 with Lieutenant Commander Merril Comstock in command. Cachalot was the first submarine to have the Torpedo Data Computer, Arma Corporation's Mark 1, installed.
USS Shark has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
USS Narwhal has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
USS Salmon has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
USS K-2 (SS-33) was a K-class submarine, of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, as Cachalot, making her the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cachalot, another name for the sperm whale, but on 17 November 1911, during construction, she was renamed K-2. She was launched on 4 October 1913 sponsored by Mrs. Ruth Chamberlain McEntee, and commissioned on 31 January 1914 with Ensign R. Moses in command.
Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named Cuttlefish for the cuttlefish, a ten-armed marine mollusk similar to the squid.
The K-class submarines were a class of eight submarines of the United States Navy, serving between 1914 and 1923, including World War I. They were designed by Electric Boat and were built by other yards under subcontracts. K-1, K-2, K-5, and K-6 were built by Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, K-3, K-7, and K-8 by Union Iron Works in San Francisco, and K-4 by Seattle Construction and Drydock Company in Seattle, Washington. All were decommissioned in 1923 and scrapped in 1931 to comply with the limits of the London Naval Treaty.
SS City of Honolulu may refer to one of these Los Angeles Steamship Company ships:
Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cachalot, after the marine mammal, the cachalot, or sperm whale:
USS Skipjack has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship named after the skipjack tuna, and may refer to:
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
