Tennessee-class Battleship

Tennessee-class Battleship

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Diagram of the Officers Station of a main battery 14-inch gun turret for the Tennessee-class of US battleships

Longitudinal diagram of a main battery 14-inch gun turret for the Tennessee-class of US battleships

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Tennessee-class Battleship Operational Timeline

3 Jun 1920	USS Tennessee was commissioned into service.
1 Aug 1921	California was commissioned into service.
29 Dec 1941	Battleships USS Tennessee and USS Maryland, both damaged in the Pearl Harbor attack, arrived at Puget Sound Navy Yard for repairs.
25 Feb 1942	Battleships USS Tennessee and USS Maryland depart Puget Sound Naval Shipyard after repairs.
27 Aug 1942	Battleship USS Tennessee arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for modernization.
20 Oct 1942	USS California arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for extensive repairs following the Pearl Harbor Attack.
22 May 1943	Battleship USS Tennessee departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
9 Oct 1943	USS Bailey arrived at San Pedro, California and later that same day, Bailey departed San Pedro bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii escorting battleship USS Tennessee.
31 Jan 1944	USS California departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
5 May 1944	Battleships USS Maryland, Colorado, Washington, and California escorted by destroyers USS Mugford, Bagley, Sterett, Wilson, Shaw, Helm, Ross, and Selfridge departed San Francisco, California bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
10 May 1944	Battleships USS Maryland, Colorado, Washington, and California escorted by destroyers USS Mugford, Bagley, Sterett, Wilson, Shaw, Helm, Ross, and Selfridge arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii from San Francisco.
12 Oct 1944	Task Group 77.2 consisting of battleships USS Tennessee, USS California, USS Pennsylvania, USS Maryland, USS West Virginia, and USS Mississippi with cruisers USS Honolulu, USS Portland, USS Minneapolis, USS Denver, and USS Columbia departed Seeadler Harbor, Manus bound Leyte Gulf, Philippines.
19 Oct 1944	USS Honolulu, USS Tennessee, USS California, and USS Portland began two days of shore bombardments on Leyte, Philippines in advance of Army landings.
1 Nov 1944	A battleship force on station at the northern entrance to Surigao Strait consisting of battleships USS Mississippi, California, and Pennsylvania screened by cruisers USS Phoenix, Boise, Nashville, and HMAS Shropshire along with destroyers Ammen, Bush, Leutze, Newcomb, Bennion, Heywood L. Edwards, Robinson, Richard P. Leary, Bryant, and Claxton came under an intense Japanese air attacking force that included special attack aircraft. USS Ammen sustained a glancing blow from a Yokosuka P1Y 'Francis' that caused considerable topside damage and killed 5 men. An Aichi D3A 'Val' crashed across Abner Read's main deck as it dropped a bomb down one the destroyer's stacks that exploded in the engine room. Abner Read jettisoned her torpedoes which immediately began their runs toward other ships in the group. Abner Read began sinking by the stern and 20 minutes after the attack, she rolled over and sank. 24 were killed. Meanwhile, Mississippi and Nashville had to take emergency evasive actions to avoid the torpedoes.
26 Nov 1944	Battleship USS Tennessee arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for an overhaul.
2 Feb 1945	Battleship USS Tennessee departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
15 Feb 1945	USS California arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to repair battle damage and an overhaul.
24 Apr 1945	USS California departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
14 Feb 1947	USS Tennessee was decommissioned from service.

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