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Comment: New Mexico class dreadnought battleship BB-41. Commissioned in 1917, not used in WWI. Was in Iceland when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and sailed to join the war in the Pacific. Participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, believed to be the largest naval battle in history. Served as a training and weapons test ship after the war, and was decommissioned in 1956.