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Connecticut-class battleship (view source)
Revision as of 05:08, March 20, 2008
, 05:08, March 20, 2008→USS ''Connecticut'' (BB 18)
Upon her return to the United States, ''Connecticut'' was modernized, receiving new "cage" masts, grey paint and numerous other alterations. Thereafter, she mainly conducted routine operations in the western Atlantic and Caribbean. However, in 1910-11 and in 1913 the battleship crossed the Atlantic to visit European waters. During World War I, ''Connecticut was'' employed as a training ship off the U.S. east coast and in the Chesapeake Bay. In the first half of 1919, she served as a transport, making four trans-Atlantic voyages to bring home veterans from France.
Upon her return to the United States, ''Connecticut'' was modernized, receiving new "cage" masts, grey paint and numerous other alterations. Thereafter, she mainly conducted routine operations in the western Atlantic and Caribbean. However, in 1910-11 and in 1913 the battleship crossed the Atlantic to visit European waters. During World War I, ''Connecticut was'' employed as a training ship off the U.S. east coast and in the Chesapeake Bay. In the first half of 1919, she served as a transport, making four trans-Atlantic voyages to bring home veterans from France.
In 1920, the year she was given the hull number BB-18 (a change from "battleship #19"; all other warships followed suit), ''Connecticut'' made a training cruise through the [[Panama Canal[[ to the west coast. She made another training voyage in 1921, this time to Europe, then transfered to the Pacific Fleet. USS ''Connecticut'' decommissioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in March 1923 and was sold for scrapping in November of that year.
In 1920, the year she was given the hull number BB-18 (a change from "battleship #18"; all other warships followed suit), ''Connecticut'' made a training cruise through the [[Panama Canal[[ to the west coast. She made another training voyage in 1921, this time to Europe, then transfered to the Pacific Fleet. USS ''Connecticut'' decommissioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in March 1923 and was sold for scrapping in November of that year.
====USS ''Louisiana'' (BB 19)====
====USS ''Louisiana'' (BB 19)====