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| - The Nova Scotia-class was a group of four battleships (originally six) built by the United States Navy in the early/mid 1920s and operated from 1924 through 1947, when the final ship, Deseret (BB-52), was decommissioned. The original plan called for a total of six battleships, but even after the failure of the November 1921 Washington Naval Treaty, while construction resumed on the first four ships, the Navy was considering the outright cancellation of the final two, Iowa (BB-53) and Massachusetts (BB-54). A lengthened Iowa was converted into the fleet carrier Lake Erie (CV-4) starting in the spring of 1923, while the roughly 75% complete hulk of Massachusetts was sunk as a gunnery target off the New Jersey coastline in the fall of 1927. The remaining ships served uneventful careers right
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| - The Nova Scotia-class was a group of four battleships (originally six) built by the United States Navy in the early/mid 1920s and operated from 1924 through 1947, when the final ship, Deseret (BB-52), was decommissioned. The original plan called for a total of six battleships, but even after the failure of the November 1921 Washington Naval Treaty, while construction resumed on the first four ships, the Navy was considering the outright cancellation of the final two, Iowa (BB-53) and Massachusetts (BB-54). A lengthened Iowa was converted into the fleet carrier Lake Erie (CV-4) starting in the spring of 1923, while the roughly 75% complete hulk of Massachusetts was sunk as a gunnery target off the New Jersey coastline in the fall of 1927. The remaining ships served uneventful careers right up until December 7, 1941, when the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor badly damaged and sank Rhode Island (BB-50) at her moorings on Battleship Row. All four - including a raised and repaired Rhode Island - were given major wartime refits in 1943 and 1944, respectively. Nova Scotia, Rhode Island, and Deseret all served in the Pacific theater, while Vermont (BB-51) served as a convoy escort in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean from 1942 through 1945, and provided offshore support for the D-Day landings in Greece in 1943. Post-war, all four ships were decommissioned and met varying fates. Nova Scotia became a museum in Halifax Harbor in 1955, Rhode Island was sunk in the Operation Crossroads atomic tests in 1946, while Deseret and Vermont were scrapped in 1947 and 1948, respectively.
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