Wreckage Is Not USS Chattanooga Friday, April 30, 2021
The story Wreckage Located In Tennessee River is in error. There is no way that the ship wreckage found is USS Chattanooga.
Both ships named USS Chattanooga were commissioned after the Civil War.
The first Chattanooga, a screw steamer, was launched Oct. 13, 1864 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.; completed by the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned May 16, 1866, Captain J. P. McKinstry in command.
After final trials in August 1866, Chattanooga returned to the Navy Yard where she was decommissioned Sept. 3, 1866. She remained inactive there and at League Island, where in December 1871 she was holed and sunk at her dock by floating ice. The hulk was sold in January 1872.
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The five
Montana-class battleships, leviathans designed to dwarf even the giant
Iowa-class battleships, were authorized for construction but never built, victims of the ascendance of naval aviation. Nearly as large as a modern supercarrier the
Montana-class, like all battleships, was made obsolete by the success of the aircraft carrier.
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In the late 1930s, the U.S. government, recognizing the deteriorating world situation, sought to rebuild U.S. naval power. The crash of the stock market in October 1939, as well as the Washington and London naval treaties, had slowed the growth of the U.S. Navy and reduced its tempo of peacetime operations. By 1940, however, with fighting raging in Asia and Europe, it was clear the United States needed to beef up its defensive capability to deter attack or to prosecute a war if it were dragged into conflict.