USS Tennessee in her final configuration
USS Tennessee in Pearl Harbor
USS Tennessee May 1943
USS Tennessee in the 1920s
USS Tennessee in 1934
Overhead view of USS Tennessee at anchor
USS Tennessee New York October 1922
USS Tennessee in dry dock Boston 1920
Battleship USS Tennessee off New York 1934
Sailors crowd decks USS Tennessee at docks at Philadelphia, 7 December 1945
USS Tennessee bow view
USS Tennessee at Brooklyn Navy Yard 1920
USS Tennessee 1945
LVT maneuvering near USS Tennessee off Leyte
Battleship USS Tennessee at sea during Maneuvers in 1936
Battleship USS Tennessee as she pours broadside of shell into enemy implacements on Iwo Jima 1945
USS Tennessee 20 mm cannon
USS Tennessee (BB-43), the lead ship of her class of battleship, was the third ship of the U.S. Navy named in honor of the 16th state.
Her keel was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard. She was launched on 30 April 1919 sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of the governor of Tennessee and commissioned on 3 June 1920 with Captain Richard H. Leigh in command.