Talk:USS Montana

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This was posted by an anonomus user, and while it is unsourced AND I can't find a steamship named Montana in service at this time, (one sank before it, and the other wasnt built yet). I am not really happy about just deleting it. So I'm posting it here. Anonomous user, thank you for contributuing but we can't have unsourced material like this especially when it doesn't seem to fit with what is already reported (ie What steamship Montana)? There might be one, but we don't have any mention of it...

[In 1866 Captain Thomas Burgess Davis resumed steam-boating, conducting a line of his own from Memphis, Tennessee, up White River to Augusta, Arkansas. He made his home at Memphis till 1873, when he removed once more to Rock Island, Illinois, and entered the U. S. Government service, in the capacity of Captain of the United States Steamer Montana. For three years he served under Colonel Macomb of the United States Engineer Corps, then in charge of the Upper Mississippi River Improvement. In 1877 he took a Government contract to convey up the Missouri, Yellowstone and Little Big Horn Rivers (the latter never before navigated), the material for the building of Forts Custer and Keough, in Montana, the freight being secured at Bismarck, Dakota, then the Western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad. This was immediately after the Custer massacre, when the region in which he operated was full of great peril. Captain Davis, however, knew no fear, and fulfilled his contract with promptness and with satisfaction to all concerned. http://www.accessgenealogy.com] [He was accompanied by his son, Sam Davis [Samuel Sharpe Davis], who performed the duties of clerk. In later years, Sam related that, at Fort Custer, his father had received aboard the Montana boxes containing the remains of General Custer and others which he later delivered to Army authorities at Fort Lincoln. -DD]

Ok. I'm moving it to Montana steamship too. DocGratis 15:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Fictional USS Montana
I'm 90% sure that the "USS Montana" in that Silva commercial is actually a British Type 42 destroyer. &mdash; Red XIV (talk) 05:52, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Fictional "USS Montana"
Montana-based Bozeman Watch Company recently released a limited edition automatic-mechanical Swiss-certified chronometer in honor of the 41st state. The BWC's USS Montana pays tribute to the veterans of Montana - the only state in the Union without a battleship namesake. 

A fictional battleship USS Montana was featured in "Sink The Montana", an episode of the G.I. Joe animated series.

The movies The Abyss and The Fifth Missile both feature a fictional Ohio-class submarine named "USS Montana", but no submarine has ever borne that name. The USS Montana in "The Abyss" wears the registry number SSBN-741, but actually this is the registry number of the USS Maine (SSBN-741).

Silva (a Swedish outdoors company) made a commercial in which the USS Montana (visually a cruiser at best, but the commercial says "second largest ship in the North Atlantic fleet" which is also fictional as the North Atlantic Fleet has not existed since 1906) demands a lighthouse to change its course. This is based on an urban legend that has been attributed to many ships, including several other non-existent US Navy ships. According to Snopes: "It ain't true. Not only does the Navy disclaim it, the anecdote shows up in a 1992 collection of jokes and tall tales. Worse, it appears in Stephen Covey's 1989 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and he got it from a 1987 issue of Proceedings, a publication of the U.S. Naval Institute." 

A fictional cruiser, USS Montana CGN-46 was featured in a season 4 episode of J.A.G, "Dungaree Justice".

The Web-based podcast Star Trek: The Continuing Mission features the adventures of the crew of the starship USS Montana NCC-1786.
 * I have moved this from the main page. A disambiguation page should not be full of trivia type entries. --Brad (talk) 15:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)