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Tarn Stephanos
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Username: titanictarn
Post Number: 2436
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 4:43 am: | 
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What was the longest serving US navy ship of the past century? Did any of the 4 funneled WW1 ships live to see the end of WW2?
The USS Wisconnsin had quite a long life...Wasn't she a vessel from WW2 that also fought in the 1st Gulf War? |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 15961
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 5:27 am: |
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>>What was the longest serving US navy ship of the past century?<<
That would likely be some of the old tenders though the names escape me at the moment. Currently, the oldest vessel in active service, short of the USS Constitution, would be the aircraft carrier USS Kittty Hawk. She was commissioned on 29 April, 1961. She's scheduled to decommission next year after 47 years of service.
>>The USS Wisconnsin had quite a long life...Wasn't she a vessel from WW2 that also fought in the 1st Gulf War?<<
The USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa class battleship and is currently a museum vessel moored at the Nauticus Museum in Norfolk Va. See http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/64a.htm for a photo study of the ship which served in World War Two, Korea, and Gulf War One.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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