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Every vessel of the US Navy (as in almost all other navies) is given a ship number within its class, as well as a name. The last US battleships were the USS Wisconsin (BB 64) and the USS Iowa (BB 61), which were removed from the Naval Register on March 17, 2006, having been decommissioned in 1992 and 1990 respectively.

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