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=== USS ''Kentucky'' (BB-6) ===
[[File:KENTUCKY LCCN2014704670.tif|thumb|''Kentucky'' at anchor, c. 1900]]
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''Kentucky'' laid down on the same day as her [[sister ship]], and was launched the same day as well. She was commissioned on 15 May 1900.{{sfn|Reilly & Scheina|p=83}} Later that year, she left for China to join the [[Eight Nation Alliance]] then in the process of suppressing the [[Boxer Rebellion]]. ''Kentucky'' arrived in [[East Asia]] in early 1901 and she saw no action during the final stage of the uprising. The ship operated in the region until early 1904. After returning to the United States, she joined the North Atlantic Squadron in 1905. During the [[History of cuba#Cuba in the early 20th century|1906 Cuban Insurrection]], she carried [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] to the island, embarking them in [[Provincetown]] and landing them at [[Havana, Cuba]] for the [[Second Occupation of Cuba]].{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}}

In 1907, ''Kentucky'' participated in the Great White Fleet, as part of the Fourth Division with her sister. The fleet left from Hampton Roads on 16 December 1907, circled South America, passed through San Francisco, and arrived at Hawaii. From there, they sailed to New Zealand and Australia, visited the Philippine Islands, Japan, China, and Ceylon before transiting the Suez Canal. The fleet split at Port Said, with ''Kentucky'' visiting [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] and Algiers, before reforming with the fleet at Gibraltar. She returned to Hampton Roads on 22 February.{{sfn|Albertson|pp=46, 181–192}}

From 1909–1911, ''Kentucky'' was modernized at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.{{sfn|Friedman 1985|pp=82–83}} She was thereafter placed in reserve, where she remained until she was recommissioned at Philadelphia on 23 June 1915. Following the [[United States occupation of Veracruz]], she sailed to [[Mexico]], patrolling the coast off [[Veracruz, Veracruz|Veracruz]] until 1916. She then returned to New York, where she laid until the United States [[American entry into World War I|entered World War I]]. During the war, she operated as a training ship as part of the [[mobilization]] effort, training several thousand men along the Atlantic coast.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}}

In late 1918 and early 1919, ''Kentucky'' was overhauled at the [[Boston Navy Yard]]. She then left for exercises in Guantanamo Bay, Norfolk, and along the [[New England]] coast, and later trained [[United States Naval Academy]] [[midshipman|midshipmen]]. ''Kentucky'' was decommissioned on 29 March 1920; the Navy briefly considered rebuilding her into a crane ship as well, but ultimately decided against it. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 27 May 1922 and she was sold for scrap to [[Dravo Corporation]] on 24 March 1923.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}}