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USS Indiana (BB-58) was the second of four South Dakota -class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1930s.
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.
USS Indiana, a 35,000-ton South Dakota class battleship built at Newport News, Virginia, was commissioned in April 1942. After shaking down in the Atlantic, she joined the war against Japan,...
Indiana served as a transfer point for emaciated Allied POWs liberated from Japanese camps, receiving and then transferring a total of seven naval officers, 47 enlisted men, 28 enlisted...
3 lip 2019 · USS Indiana (BB-58) Overview. Nation: United States. Type: Battleship. Shipyard: Newport News Shipbuilding. Laid Down: November 20, 1939. Launched: November 21, 1941. Commissioned: April 30, 1942. Fate: Sold for scrap, 1963. Specifications. Displacement: 35,000 tons. Length: 680 ft. Beam: 107.8 ft. Draft: 29.3 ft.
23 sty 2021 · The battleship Indiana (BB-58), nicknamed the Hoosier Houseboat - the black maw of one of her 16-inch guns staring at the camera-is headed for the oblivion of the scrap pile. The steel in her proud hull is being nonchalantly cut up by the torches.
USS INDIANA was the second SOUTH DAKOTA - class Battleship and the third ship (but only the second actually completed) in the Navy named after the state. Placed in reserve in commission at Bremerton on September 11, 1946, the INDIANA was decommissioned on September 11, 1947, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
