[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #4595, aired 2004-07-23 [PAR] Jul 23, 2004 ... (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in a tongue foreign to us but ... The 
Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state... [DOC] [TLE] List of battleships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia [PAR] This list of battleships of the United States Navy consists of all ships with the hull 
classification symbol "BB". A number of these were started but never completed. 
... They, and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships". .... 
Except for Kearsarge, named by an act of Congress, all U.S. Navy battleships 
have... [DOC] [TLE] USS Kearsarge (BB-5) - Wikipedia [PAR] USS Kearsarge (BB-5), the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships, 
was a United States Navy ship, named after the sloop-of-war Kearsarge. ... In 
addition to these guns, Kearsarge carried fourteen 5 in (127 mm)/40 caliber guns, 
twenty 6-pounder (57 ... She was the only US battleship not named after a state. [DOC] [TLE] Ship Naming - NHHC - Navy [PAR] Jun 26, 2015 ... This act stated that "all of the ships, of the Navy of the United States, now building
, ... The Secretary considers these nominations, along with others he receives as 
... In 1894 the famed Civil War sloop-of-war Kearsarge ran aground in the ... 5) 
became the only American battleship not to be named for a state. [DOC] [TLE] How were the names of American Battleships slected? : AskHistorians [PAR] Feb 24, 2014 ... ... states (except for the USS Kearsarge), but how was the specific state chosen? 
... There were 5 planned Montana class battleships, these would have been ... 
the USN would have more than 48 battleships commissioned at any one time. ... 
Montana was the only state to not have a battleship named after it. [DOC] [TLE] Dreadnought, Pre-Dreadnoughts, States & Rivers, the Treaty Cruisers [PAR] Great Britain and Germany, the United States and Japan ... two more in 1895 (
BB5 Kearsarge, the only battleship not named after a state but instead after .... 
guns, the only time these were tried in a British ship -- it was completed with only 
one. [DOC] [TLE] US Battleship Names - Battleship Era - World of Warships official ... [PAR] So here is a full list of US states and the hull number of any ... Also there is one 
other battleship that was launched that was not named after any state, the USS 
Kears. ... was not named after any state, the USS Kearsarge BB-5 was named by 
.... These ships finished construction and served throughout WWII. [DOC] [TLE] USS Kearsarge, the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought ... [PAR] Absent from Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and thus not subject to lengthy 
repair (or ... 16 in Colorado class battleship USS Maryland shortly before WW2: 
only lightly .... USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy 
named in .... The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), one of the Navy's newest ships, has 
cyber... [DOC] [TLE] The Predreadnought Battleship USS Kentucky - JStor [PAR] battleship USS Kentucky was commissioned into the United States. Navy on May 
15, 1900, ... and Captain Chester addressed the men.1 With its new coat of white 
paint ... through all of these from 1895, when initially authorized, to 1923, when 
the .... Kearsarge was the only battleship not named for a state. In early 1894, the
... [DOC] [TLE] History of Ships named USS Kearsarge - Warner [PAR] SHIPS NAMED "KEARSARGE" AND THE MOUNTAIN FOR WHICH THEY WERE 
... the only surviving son of John A. Winslow, commander of the first KEARSARGE 
... One of the many accomplishments was the raising of the sunken submarine ... 
the KEARSARGE was the third ship of the United States Navy to be so named. [DOC] [TLE] Today's Navy and the Civil War - Cleveland Civil War Roundtable [PAR] The United States Navy, steeped in

Question: The Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state
Answer: a battleship