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What are the names of all American battleships?In: Military Terms |
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American Battleships are mostly named for states.
- Alabama (BB-8)
- Alabama (BB-60)
- Arizona (BB-39)
- Arkansas (BB-33)
- California (BB-44)
- Colorado (BB-45)
- Connecticut (BB-18)
- Delaware (BB-28)
- Florida (BB-30)
- Georgia (BB-15)
- Idaho (BB-24)
- Idaho (BB-42)
- Illinois (BB-7)
- Illinois (BB-65)(not built)
- Indiana (BB-1)
- Indiana (BB-50)(not built)
- Indiana (BB-58)
- Iowa (BB-4)
- Iowa (BB-53)(not built)
- Iowa (BB-61)
- Kansas (BB-21)
- Kearsarge (BB-5) (Named by an act of Congress)
- Kentucky (BB-6)
- Kentucky (BB-66)(not built)
- Louisiana (BB-19)
- Louisiana (BB-71)(not built)
- Maine (sunk as target)
- Maine (BB-10)
- Maine (BB-69)(not built)
- Maryland (BB-46)
- Massachusetts (BB-2)
- Massachusetts (BB-54)(not built)
- Massachusetts (BB-59)
- Michigan (BB-27)
- Minnesota (BB-22)
- Mississippi (BB-23)
- Mississippi (BB-41/AG-128)
- Missouri (BB-11)
- Missouri (BB-63)
- Montana (BB-51)
- Montana (BB-67)(not built)
- Nebraska (BB-14)
- Nevada (BB-36)
- New Hampshire (BB-25)
- New Hampshire (BB-70)(not built)
- New Jersey (BB-16)
- New Jersey (BB-62)
- New Mexico (BB-40)
- New York (BB-34)
- North Carolina (BB-52)(not built)
- North Carolina (BB-55)
- North Dakota (BB-29)
- Ohio (BB-12)
- Ohio (BB-68)(not built)
- Oklahoma (BB-37)
- Oregon (BB-3)
- Pennsylvania (BB-38)
- Rhode Island (BB-17)
- South Carolina (BB-26)
- South Dakota (BB-49)(not built)
- South Dakota (BB-57)
- Tennessee (BB-43)
- USS Texas (sunk as target)
- Texas (BB-35)
- Utah (BB-31/AG-16)
- Vermont (BB-20)
- Virginia (BB-13)
- Washington (BB-47)
- Washington (BB-56)
- West Virginia (BB-48)
- Wisconsin (BB-9)
- Wisconsin (BB-64)
- Wyoming (BB-32/AG-17)
The pre-dreadnoughts USS Zrinyi (formerly the Austrian SMS Zrinyi), USS Radetzky (formerly the Austrian SMS Radetzky), and USS Ostfriesland (formerly the German SMS Ostfriesland), taken as prizes of war after World War I, were commissioned in the US Navy, but were not assigned hull classification symbols.
No American battleship has ever been lost at sea, though some have been sunk in port and others sunk as targets.
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