High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship, was built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state`s recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was one of a number of American ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and was assigned to it for the rest of her career.