Question: The painter, photography and visual communication scholar, Sol Worth, after his 1943 graduation, boarded this United States Navy battleship, named after a U. S. State, of what class?

<P0-S0> The "Gato"-class were a class of submarines built for the United States Navy and launched in 1941–1943; they were the first mass-production U.S. submarine class of World War II. <P0-S1>  Together with their near-sisters the "Balao" and "Tench" class es, their design formed the majority of the United States Navy's World War II submarine fleet. <P0-S2>  Named after the lead ship of the class, USS "Gato" , the "Gato"s and their successors formed the core of the submarine service that was largely responsible for the destruction of the Japanese merchant marine and a large portion of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. <P0-S3>  "Gato"' s name comes from a species of small catshark. <P0-S4>  Like most other U.S. Navy submarines of the period, boats of the "Gato" class were given the names of marine creatures. <P0-S5>  In some references, the "Gato"s are combined with their successors, especially the "Balao" class. <SEP> <P1-S0> USS "South Dakota" (BB-57) was a battleship in the United States Navy, in active service from 1942 until 1947. <P1-S1>  The lead ship of her class, "South Dakota" was the third ship of the US Navy to be named in honor of the 40th state. <P1-S2>  The four ships of the class are considered to be the most efficient battleships designed under the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty. <P1-S3>  During World War II, the battleship first served a tour in the Pacific theater, where it fought in two battles in 1942 that earned the ship and its crew a Navy Unit Commendation before returning to New York in December 1942 for an overhaul and battle repairs. <P1-S4>  In May 1943, "South" "Dakota" joined British Home Fleet patrols in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans before sailing again to the Pacific in August 1943. <P1-S5>  There, "South Dakota" participated in combat operations preparatory to the invasion of Japan until returning to the United States in October 1945. <SEP> <P2-S0> USS "Missouri" (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a United States Navy "Iowa"-class battleship and was the third ship of the U.S. Navy to be named after the U.S. state of Missouri. <P2-S1>  "Missouri" was the last battleship commissioned by the United States and is best remembered as the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which ended World War II. <SEP> <P3-S0> Sol Worth (born New York City; August 19, 1922 – August 29, 1977) was a painter, photography and visual communication scholar. <P3-S1>  His parents, Ida and Jacob Wishnepolsky, were Russian immigrants who worked in the garment industry and were active members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. <P3-S2>  His first language was Yiddish, and he spoke virtually no English until he began school at age 5. <P3-S3>  Worth attended the founding class of the High School of Music and Art in New York City as an art student from 1936 until 1940; in 1937 one of his paintings was chosen to be part of a student exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. <P3-S4>  Upon graduation from high school he attended the State University of Iowa, where he studied with the painter Philip Guston. <P3-S5>  He graduated in 1943 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, but entered the Navy before graduation and did not formally receive his diploma until already on board the USS "Missouri" in the Pacific. <P3-S6>  While in the Navy, Worth served as helmsman on the "Missouri" and was later assigned to Military Intelligence at the Joint Intelligence Center in Hawaii.