USS Hawaii (CB-3)
The USS Hawaii was born on November 3, 1945 in the New York Shipbuilding Corp. launched in Camden, New Jersey. The USS Hawaii was baptized by Mrs. Joseph R. Farrigton, wife of the State Representative for the Territory of Hawaii . After this territory or this archipelago, which was later incorporated as the 50th US state, the ship was named.
She was the third ship of the Alaska class , of which only the first two ships, the USS Alaska (lead ship of her class) and the USS Guam , were completed. This class of ship, which was classified as Large Cruiser , was designed to face the heavy armored cruisers of the Japanese Empire , which were planned in the BB-65 project but never built. After the Second World War ended, further construction was stopped. By this time, September 1947, the USS Hawaii was 84% complete.
It was considered to convert it into the first guided missile cruiser, but then the USS Hawaii remained in the reserve fleet. She was reclassified to CBC-1, a Large Command Ship, on February 26, 1952. Most recently, she was reclassified to Large Cruiser on October 9, 1954 and sold to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md., For scrapping in 1959, after she was on June 9, 1958, was removed from the list of ships in the United States Navy .
literature
- Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1921-1997, revised edition, Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-7637-6225-6 , page 306
Web links
- History of Hawaii in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)