Keywords: Lot-9425-6: The Star of a Sea-Fortress. Rear Admiral Felix X. Gygax, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, is pictured, second from left, driving the first rivet into the keel of what would have been USS Kentucky (BB 66), on March 7, 1942. Delays and with the Navy decided it needed faster battleships, the building on the battleship was halted. After numerous ideas on the ship, Kentucky was sold for scrap in 1958. Office of War Information. (2015/11/13). Lot-9425-6: The Star of a Sea-Fortress. Rear Admiral Felix X. Gygax, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, is pictured, second from left, driving the first rivet into the keel of what would have been USS Kentucky (BB 66), on March 7, 1942. Delays and with the Navy decided it needed faster battleships, the building on the battleship was halted. After numerous ideas on the ship, Kentucky was sold for scrap in 1958. Office of War Information. (2015/11/13). |