- the lead ship of the Tennessee class of dreadnought battleships
- Commissioned: 3 June 1920
- Decommissioned: 14 February 1947
- USS Tennessee was moored in Battleship Row when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941, but not seriously damaged.
- Aleutian Islands Campaign (Jun~Aug 1942)
- Campaigns in Gilberts, Marshall Islands, the Mariana and Palau Islands in 1943 & 1944
- Philippines campaign (1944~1945)
- Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945
- was hit by a kamikaze before the end of the War, but was not seriously damaged.
Armament:
4 × triple 14 in (356 mm) guns
14 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns
4 × single 3 in (76 mm) guns
2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes