7. USS Connecticut Was Built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

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Standing out amongst a number of other ships built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the USS Connecticut is noteworthy because it served as President Theodore Roosevelt’s flagship for the Great White Fleet. To showcase the U.S. Navy’s powerful fleet and to assert the country as a global power, 26 vessels embarked on a two-year journey, which circumnavigated the globe. It took off on December 16, 1907 and sailed until February 22, 1909.