World War I
Kansas was still in the Philadelphia yard on 6 April 1917 when the United States entered World War I. She arrived in York River from Philadelphia on 10 July and became a unit of the 4th Battleship Division, spending the remainder of the war as an engineering training ship in Chesapeake Bay occasionally making escort and training cruises to New York.
Read more about this topic: USS Kansas (BB-21)
Famous quotes containing the words war i, world and/or war:
“It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!”
—Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)
“Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)