Category: USS New Jersey (BB-16), United States Navy

Categories: United States Navy Ships

This category contains profiles of those who served aboard the USS New Jersey
  • Commissioned: 12 May 1906
  • Decommissioned: 6 August 1920
  • Status: Sunk as target 5 September 1923

USS New Jersey (BB-16) was the fourth of five Virginia-class battleships of the United States Navy, and the first ship to carry her name. She was laid down at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts in May 1902, launched in November 1904, and commissioned into the fleet in May 1906. The ship was armed with an offensive battery of four 12-inch (300 mm) guns and eight 8-inch (200 mm) guns, and she was capable of a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph).

See Wikipedia:USS_New_Jersey_(BB-16)


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Person Profiles (2)

27 Sep 1891 Middletown City, Butler, Ohio, United States - 12 Jan 1942
26 Mar 1884 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States - 07 Dec 1941 photo




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