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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.
Except for Kearsarge, named by an act of Congress, all U.S. Navy battleships have been named for states, and each of the 48 contiguous states has had at least one battleship named for it except Montana; two battleships were authorized to be named Montana but both were cancelled before construction started.
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.
4 sie 2016 · The United States Navy began building six battlecruisers—the Lexington class—after World War I but those ships, as well as three British and four Japanese battlecruisers, were cancelled...
U.S. Navy battleship construction began with the keel laying of the Maine in 1888 and ended with the suspension of the incomplete Kentucky (BB-66) in 1947. During this almost six-decade-long...
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895. As they can be considered as reduced ...
These were the only US Navy ships to which the battlecruiser classification was applied. The designation "CC", which was not formally applied until the 17 July 1920 fleet redesignation, is thought to have been derived from "Cruiser, Capital", indicating their status as capital ships.
