Posted on Sep 15, 2023
Eyewitness 4 News Coverage of the USS Arkansas
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Your boat was named after the USS Arkansas which was a Dreadnought class battleship. I used to play it on one of my smartphone video games. I've been on the USS Texas so it's very similar to that one.
No wonder your boat was named after it!
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/arkansas-bb-33.html
No wonder your boat was named after it!
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/arkansas-bb-33.html
USS Arkansas, a 26,000 ton Wyoming class battleship, was built at Camden, New Jersey. Commissioned in September 1912, she spent her first seven years of service with the Atlantic Fleet. In 1913, Arkansas cruised in the Mediterranean, and in 1914 she participated in the U.S. intervention in Mexico. During July-December 1918, she operated with the British Grand Fleet as World War I approached and reached its conclusion. Transiting the Panama...
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