USS Tulsa
One ship of the United States Navy has been named USS Tulsa, after Tulsa, Oklahoma. A second ship of this name was planned but never built and a third is planned.
- USS Tulsa (PG-22), a gunboat that served during World War II receiving two battle stars. Commissioned 3 December 1923 and renamed USS Tacloban 18 December 1944. She was decommissioned 6 March 1946.
- USS Tulsa (CA-129), assigned 27 November 1944 to be an Template:Sclass- built at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Plant. However, on 12 August 1945, before the ship's keel had been laid, the contract for her construction was cancelled.[1]
- USS Tulsa (LCS-16), On 6 June 2013, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the construction of the USS Tulsa. USS Tulsa is an Template:Sclass- and is being built by Austal USA in Mobile, Ala. It will be 419 feet long and have a beam length of 103.7 feet and be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 40 knots.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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