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- USS Tennessee in her final configuration
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- USS Tennessee in Pearl Harbor
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- USS Tennessee May 1943
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- USS Tennessee in the 1920s
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- USS Tennessee in 1934
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- Overhead view of USS Tennessee at anchor
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- USS Tennessee New York October 1922
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- USS Tennessee in dry dock Boston 1920
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- Battleship USS Tennessee off New York 1934
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- Sailors crowd decks USS Tennessee at docks at Philadelphia, 7 December 1945
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- USS Tennessee bow view
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- USS Tennessee at Brooklyn Navy Yard 1920
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- USS Tennessee 1945
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- LVT maneuvering near USS Tennessee off Leyte
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- Battleship USS Tennessee at sea during Maneuvers in 1936
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- Battleship USS Tennessee as she pours broadside of shell into enemy implacements on Iwo Jima 1945
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- USS Tennessee 20 mm cannon
USS Tennessee (BB-43), the lead ship of her class of battleship, was the third ship of the U.S. Navy named in honor of the 16th state.
Her keel was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard. She was launched on 30 April 1919 sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of the governor of Tennessee and commissioned on 3 June 1920 with Captain Richard H. Leigh in command.