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. Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Virginia on 30 June 1896. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
Mean Of Transportation