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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Maryland''''' was one of five [[Colorado Class Battleship (1920)|Colorado class]] dreadnoughts completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
 
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Maryland''''' was one of five [[Colorado Class Battleship (1920)|Colorado class]] dreadnoughts completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
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She was commissioned on 21 July 1921, with Captain [[Charles Francis Preston|Charles F. Preston]] in command.
  
 
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Revision as of 11:16, 19 November 2014

U.S.S. Maryland (1920)
Hull Number: BB-46
Builder: Newport News[1]
Laid down: 24 Apr, 1917[2]
Launched: 20 Feb, 1920[3]
Commissioned: 21 Jul, 1921[4]
Decommissioned: 3 Apr, 1947[5]
Stricken: 1 Mar, 1959[6]
Sold: 8 Jul, 1959[7]
U.S.S. Maryland was one of five Colorado class dreadnoughts completed for the U.S. Navy.

She was commissioned on 21 July 1921, with Captain Charles F. Preston in command.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 420.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 420.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 420.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 420.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 420.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 420.
  7. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 420.
  8. Register of Officers, 1922. pp. 12-13.

Bibliography


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