July 15, 2015

Panama Canal Still Vital to Navy's Mission Today

About a month before the grand opening, and christening, of the Panama Canal, the first American battleships transited the canal. It took nine hours between July 15-16, 1915, for the three dreadnoughts -- Missouri (BB 11), Ohio (BB 12) and Wisconsin (BB 9) -- to complete the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.Although they were first