[shove_it]

Whoda thunk a USN ship would be built and commissioned on the Great Lakes.

Actually there was another USS Detroit - a 4-stack light cruiser. One of only TWO warships that were at Pearl on Dec 7 AND at Tokyo Bay for the Surrender ceremony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Detroit_(CL-8)

[cripplecreek]

There’s at least one aircraft carrier trainer at the bottom of lake Michigan.

[IMR 4350]

My uncle was on the Detroit at Pearl Harbor.

[Paladin2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Detroit_%28CL-8%29

[Paladin2]

USS Detroit (CL-8) was an Omaha-class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the fourth Navy ship named for the city of Detroit, Michigan.

Detroit was launched on 29 June 1922 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Miss M. Couzens, daughter of James J. Couzens, the Mayor of Detroit, Michigan; and commissioned on 31 July 1923, Captain J. Halligan, Jr., in command.

[alfa6]

A number of fleet submarines, about 2 dozen IIRC, were built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin during WW-II and floated down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

Not to mention landing craft were also made in Wisconsin and in Kansas City as well. They to were floated down the rivers to the gulf as well.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}