USS Kearsarge (BB-5)

Common card · No. 421613

USS Kearsarge (hull number: BB-5), was the name ship of the Kearsarge class of pre-dreadnought battleships built during the 1890s for the United States Navy. Instead of being named after a state, she was named in honor of the Civil War-era Kearsarge, a sloop-of-war that sank CSS Alabama in the Battle of Cherbourg, being the only United States Navy battleship to deviate from the established naming conventions. Completed in 1900, Kearsarge initially served as the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron until 1905 and from 1907 to 1909 she sailed as part of the Great White Fleet that circumnavigated the world. In 1909 she was decommissioned for modernization, which was finished in 1911. In 1915 she served in the Atlantic, and between 1916 and 1919 she served as a training ship. She was converted into a crane ship in 1920, renamed Crane Ship No. 1 in 1941, and sold for scrap in 1955.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain