Look At Those Superstructures

[Subdeacon Joe]

October 22, 1919. USN warships are kept in mothballs after American Expeditionary Forces were transferred back home from Europe. Front row, left to right: battleships Iowa, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kearsarge, Kentucky, Maine.

 

[Chantry]

All pre-dreadnoughts, they were obsolete before WWI even started.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

The USS Maine blew up and sank in Havana harbor in 1898. She was raised and then scuttled off Florida in 1912. 
 

I’m not aware of another ship with that name, so I wonder what ship that might be in the 1919 pic?

[Cypress Sun]

31 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

The USS Maine blew up and sank in Havana harbor in 1898. She was raised and then scuttled off Florida in 1912. 
 

I’m not aware of another ship with that name, so I wonder what ship that might be in the 1919 pic?

 

The USS Maine (BB - 10) that was launched in 1901 was the second US ship called the Maine. It was part of the Great White Fleet. It was sold for scrap in 1923. As you stated, the first one was sunk, raised and scuttled. There was going to be another USS Maine to be built in WWII but they never built it. The newest Maine is a submarine and is still in use.

 

Before anyone thinks that I just knew all this, I didn't. When I saw the SDJ's post, I thought the same thing as Slim...so I looked it up.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

6 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

The USS Maine (BB - 10) that was launched in 1901 was the second US ship called the Maine. It was part of the Great White Fleet. It was sold for scrap in 1923. As you stated, the first one was sunk, raised and scuttled. There was going to be another USS Maine to be built in WWII but they never built it. The newest Maine is a submarine and is still in use.

 

Before anyone thinks that I just knew all this, I didn't. When I saw the SDJ's post, I thought the same thing as Slim...so I looked it up.

Thank you. I have a book called The American Steel Navy with high quality photos of the steel ships post Civil War - from the 1880’s to the Great White Fleet. Haven’t looked at it in awhile, so now I’m gonna have to pull it off the shelf. 

[Pat Riot]

54 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Thank you. I have a book called The American Steel Navy with high quality photos of the steel ships post Civil War - from the 1880’s to the Great White Fleet. Haven’t looked at it in awhile, so now I’m gonna have to pull it off the shelf. 

Many ship’s, in particular ships named after states, are used numerous times. My ship, the USS Virginia CGN-38 was the 5th US Navy ship named after the state of Virginia. Now that name belongs to a submarine. USS Virginia SSN-774.

[Subdeacon Joe]

41 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Many ship’s, in particular ships named after states, are used numerous times. My ship, the USS Virginia CGN-38 was the 5th US Navy ship named after the state of Virginia. Now that name belongs to a submarine. USS Virginia SSN-774.

 

My dad served as a Fleet Marine on the 3rd ship to carry the name  "Brooklyn."

 

First was the USS Brooklyn,  1858, a wooden hulled screw sloop

 

Next was USS Brooklyn, (ACR-3), an armored cruiser commissioned in 1898 and was a flagship in the Spanish-American War. 

 

His was the USS Brooklyn, (CL-40), commissioned 1936.  Took part in rescue operations of the Wakefield, and bombardment of French Morocco in Operation Torch,  and later in the bombardment of Anzio in Operation Shingle.