The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Friday, June 11, 2021

USS Mobile (CL-63)-- Part 1

There is a new U.S. Navy warship named USS Mobile.  It was just commissioned on May22, 2021.  It is am Independence-Class littoral combat ship and it was even built by Austal USA in Mobile.  The ship just left Mobile for its homeport in San Diego.

Thousands turned out for its commissioning and is the fifth ship to bear the city's name.

There was also a World War II USS Mobile which I have never written about in this blog, nor have I ever even heard of it.

From Wikipedia

It was built in Newport News and commissioned  24 March 1943, arriving at Pearl Harbor  23 July 1943.  She was involved in the Gilberts Island Campaign and  screened the ships  in the attack on Tarawa Atoll in September.  In December, the Mobile  was in the attacks on Kwajalein and Wotje in the Marshall islands.

--GreGen


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