Have you ever wondered how ships get their names? Sometimes it seems like a random pattern, but other times not.A look at how and why US Navy ships received (and continue to receive) their names might answer some lingering questions.Through an act of Congress in 1819, the responsibility for assigning names to the Navy’s ships [...]
Unlike its predecessors, the fourth LOUISIANA is an Ohio-class submarine.The USS LOUISIANA (SSBN-743) was awarded construction in December 1990 and launched in July 1996 at the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay at Kings Bay, Georgia (which upped the complement of ballistic missile submarines to a total of 10 at Kings Bay).Significantly, the four stars on [...]
Third in line of the storied ships named LOUISIANA was the US Navy battleship LOUISIANA (BB- 19).She was commissioned in full glory on June 2, 1906, and was soon called on to serve by being sent to Havana on a Peace Commission at the request of the National Cuban president for help in putting down [...]
Continuing in the discovery of ships named LOUISIANA, it’s time to take a look at the second ship named LOUISIANA which was a side wheel steamship and was commissioned in August, 1861.Being originally posted to the Union’s North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the LOUISIANA operated along the Coast of Virginia against Confederate blockades.The steamship LOUISIANA played [...]
There’s a long and storied history to ships named LOUISIANA, but the best place to start the exploration is probably at the beginning.The first ship named LOUISIANA was a sloop built in the shipyards of New Orleans in 1812 and it played a key role in the defense of the city of New Orleans during [...]