US Navy Ships Named for Colorado

The Palmer Lake Historical Society invites the public to a presentation on US Navy ships named for the State of Colorado.  Our heart and soul is with the USS Colorado SSN 788, a Virginia class submarine – the most advanced in the Navy – but how much do we know about the first three USS Colorado ships?  Dick Cooper will tell us about the ancestral namesake ships that preceded SSN 788: the Civil War era Steam Screw Frigate USS Colorado, WWI era USS Colorado ACR-7, and WWII Colorado BB-45. We’ll find out about the Navy tradition of when a ship is named for a state, the namesake state creates a commissioning party and helps adorn the ship.

Dick Cooper is a retired Naval Reserve Commander and a retired public school teacher who moved to Palmer Lake in 2005. He is immediate past president of the Colorado Springs chapter of the Navy League and a member of the USS Colorado Commissioning Committee.

This event is free to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.  For more information, visit our website at www.palmerdividehistory.org.