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The United States Navy began building a series of battlecruisers in the 1920s, more than a decade after their slower and less heavily armed armored cruisers had been rendered obsolete by the Royal Navy's Invincible-class battlecruisers.
26 wrz 2019 · Planned like the South Dakota class battleships, the five Lexington-class battlecruisers (Lexington, Saratoga, Constitution, Constellation, United States) were to be completed in 1922-23. They were of course cancelled due to the Washington Treaty suspension in 1923.
Cruisers were the most powerful ships that were not limited in number the way the battleships had been by the Naval Treaty of 1922. Nowhere near as numerous as destroyers, and much less powerful than battleships, they sitll had strategic importance.
Two American-built pre-dreadnought battleships, USS Mississippi (BB-23) and her sister USS Idaho (BB-24), were sunk in 1941 by German bombers during their World War II invasion of Greece. The ships had been sold to Greece in 1914, becoming Kilkis and Lemnos respectively.
Most of the American cruisers remembered from World War II were built under programs framed in 1939 to 1941, before the United States entered the conflict. They were conceived with the interwar ideas of fleet battle and trade warfare in mind, not the lessons of Guadalcanal or the big carrier battles.
26 mar 2021 · Here are 19 pictures that show why: The “Great White Fleet,” sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909, consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The fourteen-month long voyage was a grand pageant of American sea power.
The lists currently cover ALL US Navy ships, from the start of the ironclad era to the present day, and non-US battleships and battlecruisers from 1906 (the start of the Dreadnought era) to the present day.
