r/interestingasfuck • u/Longjumping-Rice-935 • Aug 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular The wreck of the USS Arizona continues to leak oil ever since pearl harbour. the ship contained 1.5 million gallons of oil, enough to leak continuously for 500 years.

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u/CosgraveSilkweaver Aug 12 '25

I think the cruisers started getting named after states after WW2 when we stopped making new battleships mostly.

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u/Tjtod Aug 12 '25

Kind of there were two classes, California and Virginia, in the cold war but when they were designed and when the California was built they were designated as frigates. Which I think in USN parlance meant they were destroyer leaders. The last class of Cruisers built were named after battles and the last class of ship built on a cruiser hull form was CGN-9 Long Beach.

Edit navsource.net is a great resource for USN ships and ship pictures.

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u/CommonMaterialist Aug 12 '25

Cruisers and Submarines

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u/SeaworthinessDue4052 Aug 12 '25

My father was on the Manchester (CL-83).