Ships built in New Jersey

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 202. Chapters: USS Anderson (DD-411), USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37), USS Berkeley (DDG-15), USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), USS Wallace L. Lind (DD-703), USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS Wiltsie (DD-716), USS Arkansas (BB-33), USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Brooklyn (1858), ARA General Belgrano, Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, USS Utah (BB-31), USS Waller (DD-466), USS Truxtun (CGN-35), USS Theodore E. Chandler (DD-717), USS Atlanta (CL-51), USS Washington (ACR-11), USS Ault (DD-698), USS South Dakota (BB-57), USS Williamson (DD-244), USS Winston (AKA-94), USS American Legion (APA-17), USS Wainwright (DD-62), USS Oklahoma (BB-37), ARA Moreno, USS Virgo (AKA-20), USS Suwannee (CVE-27), USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), USS Alshain (AKA-55), USS Thuban (AKA-19), USS Sangamon (CVE-26), USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), USS Savannah (CL-42), USS Titania (AKA-13), USS William R. Rush (DD-714), USS Ericsson (DD-56), USS Philip (DD-498), USS Sands (DD-243), USS Worcester (CL-144), USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11), USS Hawaii (CB-3), USS Toledo (CA-133), USS Waldron (DD-699), USS Hunt (DD-674), USS Aaron Ward (DD-483), USS Jacob Jones (DD-61), USS Phoenix (CL-46), USS PGM-7. Excerpt: USS Anderson (DD-411) was a Sims-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Edwin Alexander Anderson, Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient. Anderson was laid down on 15 November 1937 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; launched on 4 February 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Mertie Loraine Anderson, the widow of Rear Admiral Anderson; towed to the New York Navy Yard, and delivered there to the Navy on 18 May 1939; and commissioned on 19 May 1939, Lieutenant Commander William M. Hobby, Jr., in command. USS Anderson on 18 May 1939, just before commissioningAnderson remained at the New York Navy Yard through June, fitting out, during which time she contributed a landing party of sailors to march in the New York City Flag Day parade on 14 June 1939. Underway from her berth on 5 July, Anderson reached Newport, Rhode Island, on 7 July, mooring to the east dock at the Naval Torpedo Station, and taking on board torpedo warheads, exploders, and test equipment before returning to the New York Navy Yard the next day, pausing there only briefly before getting underway later that afternoon for Washington, D.C. Anchoring off Quantico on the night of 9 July, Anderson steamed up the Potomac River, rendering the prescribed passing honors abeam of Mount Vernon, and arrived at the Washington Navy Yard at 0721 on 10 July. The next day, a number of high-ranking officers informally inspected the new destroyer, the first of the Sims-class to be placed in commission, Admiral Harold R. Stark, the Chief of Naval Operations, accompanied by Captain H. T. Markland; Rear Admirals Robert L. Ghormley, Director of War Plans, and William R. Furlong, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, as well as Charles Edison, the Acting Secretary of the Navy. On 12 July, assisted by Tecumseh and Undaunted, Anderson got underway for Yorktown, Virginia. She loaded depth charges at the mine depot at Yorktown before moving to the Naval Operating Base (NOB) at Norfolk b