Download or read book United States Navy New Mexico-Related Ships written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: USNS Pecos (T-AO-197), USNS Private Jose F. Valdez (T-AG-169), USS Albuquerque (PF-7), USS Albuquerque (SSN-706), USS Catron (APA-71), USS Cimarron (AO-22), USS Curry County (LST-685), USS Gallup (PF-47), USS Gallup (PGM-85), USS Grant County (LST-1174), USS Hidalgo (AK-189), USS Lincoln County (LST-898), USS Los Alamos (AFDB-7), USS LST-306, USS LST-759, USS New Mexico (BB-40), USS New Mexico (SSN-779), USS Pecos (AO-65), USS Santa Fe (CL-60), USS Santa Fe (SSN-763), USS White Sands (ARD-20). Excerpt: USS New Mexico (BB-40) was a battleship in service with the United States Navy from 1918 to 1946. She was the lead ship of a class of three battleships. New Mexico was extensively modernized between 1931 and 1933 and saw service during World War II both in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres. After her decommissioning she was scrapped in 1947. New Mexico was the first US Navy ship named for the U.S. state of New Mexico. New Mexico was laid down on 14 October 1915 by the New York Navy Yard; launched on 23 April 1917; sponsored by Miss Margaret Cabeza De Baca, daughter of the recently deceased Governor of New Mexico, Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca (he had died on 28 February 1917); and commissioned on 20 May 1918, Captain Ashley Herman Robertson in command. Unlike the other two battleships of this class which used geared turbines, New Mexico was equipped with a turbo-electric propulsion system, where the high-speed steam turbine drove a set of generators providing electricity to electric motors turning the propeller shafts. General Electric ran an advertisement titled "The "Constitution" of To-day-Electronically Propelled" with a drawing of the New Mexico next to USS Constitution. The ad touted the battleship as "the first of any nation to be electrically propelled." The electrical generating plant was said to put out 28,000...