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===USS ''Maryland''===
[[File:Uss maryland bb.jpg|thumb|USS ''Maryland'']]
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{{USS|Maryland|BB-46}} was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of [[Maryland|the seventh state]]. Her keel was laid down on 24 April 1917 by the [[Newport News Shipbuilding]] Company of [[Newport News, Virginia]]. She was launched on 20 March 1920 and commissioned on 21 July 1921, Captain C.F. Preston in command. During her career she made a goodwill voyage to Australia and [[New Zealand]] in 1925, and transported [[President of the United States|President]]-elect [[Herbert Hoover]] on the Pacific leg of his tour of [[Latin America]] in 1928. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, she served as a mainstay of fleet readiness through multiple training exercises.{{sfn|DANFS Maryland (BB-46)}}

In 1940, ''Maryland'' changed her base of operations to Pearl Harbor. She was moored at [[Battleship Row]] next to [[Ford Island]] during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Damaged during the attack, ''Maryland'' reported to Puget Sound, where she was repaired and modernized. ''Maryland'' supported the amphibious landings during the [[Battle of Tarawa]], and thereafter participated in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, the [[Battle of Peleliu]], the [[Philippines campaign (1944–45)|Philippines campaign]], and the Battle of Okinawa. Following the end of World War II ''Maryland'' participated in Operation Magic Carpet before being decommissioned in 1947. She was sold for scrap in 1959.{{sfn|DANFS Maryland (BB-46)}}
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