USS California BB-44

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Vallejo, California, USA
Hull Number:
Battleship #44
BB-44 (July 17, 1920)
Ordered:
January 5, 1915
Commissioned:
August 10, 1921
Keel Laid:
October 25, 1916
Decommissioned:
February 14, 1947
Launched:
November 20, 1919
Stricken:


March 1, 1959
Fate:
Sold July 10, 1959 to Bethlehem Steel Corp., Sparrow's Point, MD. and scrapped.
Notes:
Christened by Mrs. Barbara Stephens Zane. (Daughter of William Stephens, Governor of
California.)


Builder's Data
Page published Apr. 11, 2008