Arizona USS (1915)

[john sefton]

ARIZONA
Battleship of "Pennsylvania" Class 1912-1913 (two ships). Built by the New York Navy Yard. Keel laid, March 1914; launched June, 1915; commissioned, October, 1916. Rebuilt 1928 - 31. Length 608 ft. Standard tonnage 32,000. Armament: 12 14-in. and 12 5-in. guns plus AA. guns. Ship complement 1,358. Bombed and sunk at Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941. Salved in 1943, the wreck was broken up for scrap. She was one of the last battleships with tripod masts.

Log Book November 1971


Japan 1942 SG410 (I do not have the stamp) Bhutan SG805 Dominica SG1476 Gren St Vincent SG791 Guyana SG3200 Marshall Is SG378 891 Montserrat SG810 Tonga SG1165 Uganda SG1053


USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was one of a number of American ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and remained there for the rest of her career.
Aside from a comprehensive modernization in 1929–1931, Arizona was regularly used for training exercises between the wars, including the annual Fleet Problems (training exercises). When an earthquake struck Long Beach, California in 1933, Arizona's crew provided aid to the survivors. Two years later, the ship was featured in a Jimmy Cagney film, Here Comes the Navy, about the romantic troubles of a sailor. In April 1940, she and the rest of the Pacific Fleet were transferred from California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as a deterrent to Japanese imperialism.
During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Arizona was bombed. She exploded and sank, killing 1,177 officers and crewmen. Unlike many of the other ships sunk or damaged that day, Arizona could not be fully salvaged, though the Navy removed parts of the ship for reuse. The wreck still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated on 30 May 1962 to all those who died during the attack, straddles the ship's hull.
Wikipedia.

[aukepalmhof]

St tome et Pricipe 2014 DB25000 sg?, scott?
Gambia 2016 D150 sg?, scott?
Central African Republic 2016 2650F sgMS?, scott? and 750F sgMS?, scott?
Djibouti 2016 960F sg?, scott?
Sierra Leone 1995 Le300 (in margin of miniature sheet.) 2016 le24.00 sgMS?, scott? (in margin of sheet
Grenada 2016 $3.50 sg?, scott?
Dominica 1991 $4 sg1476, scott 1374.
St Tome et Principe 2021 Db 31.00 sg?, Scott? Although this edition was authorized by the São Tomés Postal Administration, it was not sold in São Tomé, only distributed for trade by the São Tomés philatelic agency.