USS Tulsa
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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.
, a gunboat that served during World War II receiving two battle stars. Commissioned 3 December 1923 and renamed Tacloban 18 December 1944. She was decommissioned 6 March 1946.
, assigned 27 November 1944 to be an 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.
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
has been named USS Tulsa, after Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
. A second ship of this name was planned but never built.
, a gunboat that served during World War II receiving two battle stars. Commissioned 3 December 1923 and renamed Tacloban 18 December 1944. She was decommissioned 6 March 1946.
, assigned 27 November 1944 to be an 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.