Title: Photocopies of Battleship U.S.S. Tennessee Pacific Engagement Sites

Date/Date Range :   1943 June 9 - 1945 September 2 (Bulk June 1944-October 1944)

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of two xeroxed book pages showing the locations of sea battles that the ship U.S.S. Tennessee took part in.

Call number: MS-2987

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was donated to the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Photocopies of Battleship U.S.S. Tennessee Pacific Engagement Sites, MS-2987. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection consists of one folder.

The Tennessee was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard. She was launched on 30 April 1919 (sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of the governor of Tennessee) and commissioned on 3 June 1920 with Capt. Richard H. Leigh in command. Tennessee and her sister ship, California (BB-44), were the first American battleships built to a "post-Jutland" hull design. As a result of extensive experimentation and testing, her underwater hull protection was much greater than that of previous battleships and both her main and secondary batteries had fire-control systems. She joined the Battleship Force, Pacific Fleet (later called the Battle Fleet, the Battle Force, and the United States Fleet) in 1922. For the next two decades, the battleship divisions of the Battle Fleet were to include the preponderance of the Navy's surface warship strength and Tennessee served here until World War II. The Tennessee was seriously damaged in the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Afterwards, she was refitted and sent out to the Pacific to patrol.

This collection consists of two photocopied pages. The pages are maps showing locations of battle sites in the South Pacific during World War Two.

• Tennessee (Battleship).
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean.
• United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet.