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> It's a beautiful space with an incredible history - it's where the US built battleships for WWI and WWII. Pretty sure this plays fast and loose with the hist
by jeffbee 3y ago
> It's a beautiful space with an incredible history - it's where the US built battleships for WWI and WWII.
Pretty sure this plays fast and loose with the history of American naval warfare. The only battleship built in San Francisco, that I can think of, is the 19th-century relic USS Ohio.
- rsynnott 3y agoI don’t think, strictly speaking, that the US built any battleships _for_ WW2. It built a few _during_ WW2, but they’d have been ordered before the US joined the war. The last battleship ever built anywhere in the world was commissioned in 1946; WW2 was very much the moment that people realised “wait, these aren’t actually very useful anymore”.
- rgbrenner 3y agohttp://pier70sf.org/history/shipsBuilt/ShipsBuiltAll.html http://pier70sf.org/history/shipsBuilt/ShipsBuiltAll.html
- solardev 3y agoThat seems to list a bunch of destroyers and other vessels, but not "battleships". Probably the tweeter was just using that term colloquially, like "ship of war", rather than as a classification of size and function.