The domestic policy of the United States in the 1950s was one of massive production. It was assumed that the nation was under threat from the Soviet Union, so production of weapons was a priority. It was actually very good for the economy.
USS Arizona, USS Virginia, USS Massatutues USS Saratoga,
The naval battle during the American Civil War that involved the clash between the USS Merrimack and the USS Monitor was the Battle of Hampton Roads.
USS Manie at the Havana Harbor
the USS Oklahoma have been rebuild, but the military sold it for scrap and it sunk during transport.
Fleet carrier USS Yorktown and destroyer USS Hammann.
The USS Repose most likely has a website, go to them.
1,177 people were killed when the USS Arizone was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
USS Sea Devil
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CVN-65 is the 65th Fleet Carrier designated to be built; some carriers were assigned a number and never buillt, consequently their number was skipped, so there were not 65 aircraft carriers built when #65 was constructed. CV-1 was the USS Langley (sunk during the time frame of the Battle of the Java Sea campaign); CV-2 was USS Lexington (sunk at the Battle of Coral Sea); CV-3 was USS Saratoga (sunk during atomic bomb testing in 1946); CV-4 was USS Ranger (only used in the Atlantic during the war, was deemed to risky to assign her to the Pacific/ulitimately scrapped); CV-5 USS Yorktown (sunk at Midway); CV-6 USS Enterprise (the USN's most decorated warship/scrapped); CV-7 USS Wasp (Sunk during the battle of Guadalcanal); CV-8 USS Hornet (sunk during the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands); etc. CV-63 was the USS Kitty Hawk, CV-64 was the USS Constellation, etc.
There was a USS Minneapolis. It was built in the 1930's and was active during WWII. It was decomissioned in 1947, but has since been scrapped. the original USS Minneapolis was built in the 1890's and decomissioned in 1921. The ship mentioned above was the second USS Minneapolis.
Gulf of Tonkin (not "Bay"), the USS Maddox, a WWII Sumner class destroyer. Second incident involved the same warship plus a newer 1950s built Sherman class destroyer named the USS Turner Joy.