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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battleship
		Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries.
		Battleships evolved from northern European cogs, and included carracks and galleons in the 16th Century, ships of the line in the 17th and 18th centuries, broadside ironclads and Pre-Dreadnoughts in the 19th century, and Dreadnoughts in the 20th Century.
		Battleships still in existence as museums include the American USS Massachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the British HMS Mary Rose and Warrior, the Japanese Mikasa, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen, and the Chilean Huascar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battleship (1102 words)

	New Mexico class battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Mexico class battleships of the United States Navy, all three of whose construction began in 1915, were improvements on the design introduced three years earlier with the Nevada class.
		The twelve-gun main battery of the preceding Pennsylvania class was retained, but with longer 14 in (356 mm) 50 caliber guns in improved triple turrets.
		The New Mexico class was part of the "Standard type battleship" concept of the US Navy, a design concept which gave the US Navy a homogeneous line of battle (very important, as it allowed the Navy to plan maneuvers for the whole line of battle rather than detaching "fast wing"s and "slow wing"s).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Mexico_class_battleship (629 words)

	USS Mississippi (BB-23) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		USS Mississippi (Battleship No. 23), the lead ship of her class of battleships, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
		The battleship departed 24 March for Norfolk, Virginia, and operated off the east coast until fall, calling at a number of large ports, serving as a training ship for Naval Militia, and engaging in maneuvers and exercises designed to keep the ship and crew in the best possible fighting trim.
		Renamed Kilkis, the battleship was seized by France due to Greece's neutrality in World War I but was eventually released to the Greek Republican government in Thessaloniki in 1917 and served with allied navies in the Aegean and later in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
	www.tocatch.info /en/USS_Mississippi_%28BB-23%29.htm (959 words)

	WAR - Online Information article about WAR
		Mississippi," were also laid down, of 13,000 tons with reduced armament and armour and less speed.
		Their displacement is much greater than that of the largest battleships building at the time they were ordered, although they are 4000 tops smaller than the " Rio de Janeiro." They are 578 ft. long, 96 ft. beam, 271 ft. draught, and turbines of 40,000 H.P. are provided for a speed of 221 knots.
		Spain.-For some years battleship building was suspended in Spain, but, after considerable negotiation with British firms, designs were approved for three vessels of 15,130 tons and 19i knots, to carry eight 12-in.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VIR_WAT/WAR.html (8097 words)

	Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The northeastern portion of the state is on the Canadian Shield and is covered by rugged ranges of hills, notably the Mesabi Range, rich in iron ore, the Sawtooth Mountains along the shore of Lake Superior, the Misquah Hills and the Laurentian Highlands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
		Located on the Mississippi Flyway, the state hosts migratory waterfowl such as geese and ducks, as well as game birds such as grouse, pheasants, and turkeys.
		The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is located on the northeastern border of the state, and Itasca State Park, the official source of the Mississippi River, is located in the north central section.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minnesota (4801 words)

	Kearsarge class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The King George V class battleships seem to have been a classic example of the dangers of "design by committee".
		For the Battleship historian, this is a good book for quick reference to the four IOWA class Battleships.
		Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class: The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: The Backbone of the German Surface Forces at the Outbreak of War
	www.freeglossary.com /Kearsarge_class_battleship (434 words)

	USN Ship Types--Mississippi class (Battleships 23 and BB-24)
		Congressional action limited their displacement, a response to the rising size and cost of battleships that was also justified by the hardy theory that numbers of ships are more important that the quality of individual units.
		Accordingly, they were smaller, slower and shorter-ranged than their contemporaries, though their armament was similar in power: A pair of 12-inch guns in a turret at each end of the superstructure, 8-inch guns mounted in two twin turrets on each side amidships and four 7-inch guns in casemates on each side of the hull.
		Mississippi ended her American career as an aviation support ship, the Navy's first of the type, and tended her seaplanes in a pioneering combat role during the 1914 Vera Cruz operation.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/bb/bb23cl.htm (812 words)

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		The battleship dep arted 24 March for Norfolk and operated off the east coast until fall, calling at a number of large ports, serving as a training ship for Naval Militia, and engaging in maneuvers and exercises designed to keep the ship and crew in the best possible fi ghting trim.
		Following exercises with the 4th Battleship Division off New England, she returned to Philadelphia Nary Yard where she was put in the 1st Reserve 1 August 1912.
		Mississippi remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia until detached 30 December 1913 for duty as aeronautic station ship at Pensacola, Fla. Departing 6 January 1914, the battleship arrived 21 January, transporting equipment for th e establishment of a naval air station.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/battlesh/bb23.htm (733 words)

	USS Mississippi, Battleship (BB-23) History
		The battleship departed 24 March for Norfolk and operated off the east coast until fall, calling at a number of large ports, serving as a training ship for Naval Militia, and engaging in maneuvers and exercises designed to keep the ship and crew in the finest possible fighting trim.
		Returning to the United States, the battleship operated off the Atlantic coast, basing alternately out of Philadelphia and Norfolk for the next year and 2 months, serving as a training ship and conducting operational exercises.
		Following exercises with the 4th Battleship Division off New England, she returned to Philadelphia Navy Yard where she was put in the 1st Reserve 1 August 1912.
	www.josediaz.net /cgn40/olemiss/bb23.htm (817 words)

	Battleship Photo Index BB-23 USS MISSISSIPPI
		Mississippi, commissioned in February 1908, is presumably the more complete ship, in the center of the photograph.
		Mississippi (BB-23) circa 1910, shortly after she was fitted with a "cage" foremast.
		Kilkis, the former Mississippi (BB-23), is in the foreground.
	www.navsource.org /archives/01/23.htm (923 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Salamis Island
		The harbor was bombed by the German Luftwaffe in 1941, sinking the Kilkis (formerly the USS Idaho (BB-24)) and the Lemnos (formerly USS Mississippi (BB-23)).
		USS Idaho (BB-24), a Mississippi-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 43rd state.
		USS Mississippi (BB-23), the lead ship of her class of battleships, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Salamis-Island (983 words)

	Connecticut class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Connecticut-class battleships were the final class of United States Navy pre-Dreadnought battleship.
		As pre-Dreadnoughts went, they were the finest in the world, being equipped with a heavy broadside (four 12", four 8", six 7", ten 3" and six 3-pounders), having superior seakeeping capabilities and a fast (for the time) top speed of 19 knots.
		After the cruise, the ships were stripped of their fancywork, their bridges were cut down to reduce their target profile and their hulls were repainted from the attractive (but military useless) white-and-buff paint scheme to a dull but functional haze grey.
	connecticut-class-battleship.ask.dyndns.dk (148 words)

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		The Mississippi had most of the sailors sleeping in hammocks, tying them up during the day so there was room to sit down and eat.
		But it's ironic that a hundred years later, the descendent of the 14,000 ton Mississippi is a 14,000 ton surface ship that has more firepower, a longer reach and the ability to see targets hundreds of kilometers away, and is called a destroyer.
		For all other navies, their "battleship" is what the United States calls a "guided missile ship" (of either the destroyer or frigate variety.) The DD(X) is seen as a ship without a purpose, just as the Des Moines was.
	www.strategypage.com /htmw/htsurf/articles/20060904.aspx (1125 words)

	Mississippian civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The term Mississippi an civilization refers to an urban civilization that flourished in eastern North America between the years c.
		Cities have been found in the Mississippi and Ohio river basin.
		Cahokia, in modern-day Illinois near the Mississippi River, was the largest of these cities.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mississippian_civilization.html (2071 words)

	USS Idaho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first USS Idaho, 8 was a wooden steam sloop later converted to a full-rigged sailing ship.
		The second USS Idaho (BB-24), a Mississippi-class battleship, missed sailing with the Great White Fleet, saw little action during World War I, was sold to Greece and sunk early in World War II.
		The third USS Idaho (SP-545), a motor boat, was chartered for harbor entrance patrol and submarine net patrol in the Cape May and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, areas during World War I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Idaho (184 words)

	USN Ship Types--Battleships
		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.
		Except for the fast Lexington Class battle cruisers and Iowa Class battleships, these were all relatively slow vessels, as heavily armored as they were armed, intended primarily to steam in formation with their "sisters" and slug it out with similar opponents, using their powerful guns to settle the matter.
		Though the Alaska class large cruisers (CB-1 through CB-6) of 1941 are actually part of the cruiser design lineage, some sources persist in (mistakenly) referring to them as "battle cruisers".
	history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/bb/bb.htm (1918 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Mississippi (BB 23)
		The warship next put to sea 16 January 1909 to represent the United States at the inauguration of the President of Cuba at Havana, 25 to 28 January.
		The battleship departed 24 March for Norfolk and operated off the east coast until fall, calling at a number of large ports, serving as a training ship for Naval Militia, and engaging in maneuvers and exercises designed to keep the ship and crew in the finest possible fighting turn.
		MIssissippi remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia until detached 30 December 1913 for duty as aeronautic station ship at Pensacola, Fla. Departing 6 January 1914, the battleship arrived 21 January, transporting equipment for the establishment of a naval air station.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/mississippi/bb23-miss.html (763 words)

	21st CENTURY BATTLESHIPS (BBG-21s) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Battleships are designed to survive 15" and 16" shells, which are literally 1000 to 2000 pound penetrating warheads, and many better ships also have excellent torpedo belts.
		Battleships are the only vessels that could actually survive the kinds of threats that are likely to appear in littoral areas once they get within gun range of their targets.
		With no battleships available the USN was forced to shift their emphasis to the aircraft carrier as the center of a striking force, though they still continued to build a new generation of battleships.
	www.combatreform.com /battleships.htm (16534 words)

	List of battleships of the United States Navy
		This list of battleships of the United States Navy includes all ships with the hull classification symbol "BB".
		Four battleships of the US Navy were designated "second class battleships," these ships were smaller and lighter than normal battleships, with an eye toward saving money; but the Navy Department didn't like them very much and preferred to save money by building a more limited number of the best battleships they could afford.
		Thus, the US Navy never matched or even closely rivaled the line of battle of the Royal Navy in sheer numbers, but tended to have more powerful ships which could take more damage.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_battleships_of_the_united_states_navy.html (153 words)

	Life on a Battleship - USS Idaho, 1943
		class Clyde Gallagher of the USS Idaho, kept during 1943 prior to his transfer to the USS Missouri.
		, 1941, but was instead in the Atlantic with her sisters Mississippi and New Mexico on "Neutrality Patrol." As the few surviving battleships still in service, these three were teamed with other pre-Washington Treaty battleships, including those lightly damaged at Pearl and then hastily repaired.
		Class Clyde Gallagher of the USS Idaho and his shipmates sailed.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/History/USSIdaho.htm (2113 words)

	The Battleship Quiz
		The US entered the "battlecruiser" race late, after "fast battleships" forced them to be reclassified as "large cruisers." Name the six ships of this class, and the name of the two completed.
		True or false: It was not until the "second generation" battleships of the North Carolina class that the US Navy had 16 inch guns in service.
		True or False: When the British battleship Hood blew up, broke in half, and sank during the engagement with the Bismarck, this was the first time that a British battlecruiser was lost so suddenly.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/Features/Quiz.htm (869 words)

	Destroyers as Big as Battleships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The U.S. Navy is designing a new destroyer, and it's as big as a battleship, at least a battleship of a century ago, The new destroyer design, the DD(X), is to displace 14,000 tons, be 600 feet long and 79 feet wide.
		A century ago, a Mississippi class battleship displaced 14,400 tons, was 382 feet long and 77 feet wide.
		We’ll never know, as the Mississippi ended its career in the Greek navy, and was sunk by German aircraft in 1941.
	www.strategypage.com /dls/articles/20030904.asp (842 words)

	Mississippi class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Mississippi -class battleships USS Mississippi (BB-23) and USS Idaho (BB-24) served in the US Navy from to 1914.
		Neither ship was satisfactory in service (they were second-class battleships in a which could not afford to tie up in second-tier designs) and both were sold Greece in 1914 to finance the purchase the new USS Idaho.
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	www.freeglossary.com /Mississippi_class_battleship (264 words)

	USS Mississippi CGN-40 Official Crew Website
		The bridge console piece of CGN-40 USS Mississippi is now on indefinite display at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum located at Camp Shelby, MS.
		It was restored by Ingalls Ship Yard in Pascagoula Mississippi and was a part of a temporary exhibit at the Old Capitol Museum but it now resides here and is on display for the public five days a week.
		USS MISSISSIPPI, third ship of the four Virginia Class Nuclear Powered Guided Missile Cruisers, was commissioned on August 5, 1978 at Norfolk Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia.
	www.josediaz.net /cgn40 (634 words)

	BB-23 Mississippi
		The second Mississippi (BB 23) was laid down 12 May 1904 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.; launched 30 September 1905; sponsored by Miss M. Money, daughter of Senator H. Money of Mississippi; and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 1 February 1908, Capt. J.
		Calling at the major ports of this great inland waterway, she arrived at Natchez 20 May 1909, and then proceeded 5 days later to Horn Island where she received a silver service from the State of Mississippi.
		Serving as station ship there from 15 to 28 June, she then sailed north to Hampton Roads where she transferred her aviation gear to armored cruiser USS North Carolina (CA-12), 3 July 1914.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/bb-23.htm (712 words)

	Mississippi Class
		Mississippi Class Pre Dreadnaught battleship of the Us navy, consisted of USS Mississippi BB23 and USS Idaho BB24.
		In 1909 USS Mississippi went up the Mississippi river calling at Nathcez, and other river ports She served as a seaplane base ship iat the beginning of 1914 at Pensacola, moving to Vera Cruz during the Mexican war..
		Both USS Mississippi and USS Idaho were sold to Greece on the 30th July 1914.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /mississippi_class.htm (423 words)

	Mississippi class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Mississippi-class battleships, USS Mississippi (BB-23) and USS Idaho (BB-24), served in the US Navy from 1908 to 1914.
		Neither ship was satisfactory in US service (they were second-class battleships in a navy which could not afford to tie up tonnage in second-tier designs) and both were sold to Greece in 1914 to finance the purchase of the new USS Idaho.
		The ships were essentially repeat Connecticuts which gave up a knot of speed, four 7" guns, eight 3" guns, two torpedo tubes and some freeboard.
	mississippi-class-battleship.ask.dyndns.dk (127 words)

	South Carolina class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The United States Navy's South Carolina class consisted of two battleships.
		They were designed independently of but contemporaneously with HMS Dreadnought, and with the same all-big-guns principle as that famous ship, but their construction proceeded so slowly that Dreadnought was commissioned before they were.
		In design and characteristics, South Carolina represented an evolution of the preceding Connecticut class, rather than a revolutionary "clean sheet" design the way Dreadnought was.
	south-carolina-class-battleship.ask.dyndns.dk (86 words)

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