Posted on 06/09/2015 9:14:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Kearsarge.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_%28BB-5%29
USS Kearsarge (BB-5), the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships, was a United States Navy ship, named after the sloop-of-war Kearsarge. Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Virginia, on 30 June 1896. She was launched on 24 March 1898, sponsored by the wife of Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow, and commissioned on 20 February 1900.
I’ve noticed the media misusing the term ‘battleship’ an awful lot lately. I don’t think it’s an accident or a coincidence, either because it’s too many instances of it at the same time.
No idea why anyone would do this yet there it is.
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