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USS Indiana was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. [5] Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery.She was designed for coastal defense [6] and as a result, her decks were ...
USS Indiana (BB-1) Please see below for item level images and donated collections containing photographs of USS Indiana (BB-1) USS Indiana (BB-1), a 10,288-ton battleship,...
USS Indiana, a 10,288-ton battleship, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and commissioned in November 1895. She spent her entire career in the Atlantic area. During the Spanish-American...
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The U.S. Navy battleship USS Indiana (BB-1) Categories: Ships and Submarines. Print. Buy Thank you to the Mario Family Foundation for enabling the digitization of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Photo Archive. The physical photos in the Photo Archive are stored in the Mildred M. Mario Photo Archive Room located at the U.S. Naval Institute’s ...
By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired) From the collision of the USS Washington (BB-56) and the USS Indiana (BB-58) in 1945 to the deadly ramming of the USS Hobson (DD-464) by the USS Wasp (CV-18) in 1952, from the infamous HMAS Melbourne/USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) tragedy of 1969 to the fatal encounter of the USS ...
Creator. Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Ships. 9/18/1947-5/1/1966
