Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Indiana Class

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Massachusetts pictured at New York City c1900.

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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana pictured off Philadelphia Navy Yard on May 20th 1910.

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Floating crane Hercules pictured assisting Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana in the re-gunning of her 13 inch/35 calibre main armament at Brooklyn Navy Yard on June 18th 1904.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Massachusetts pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1899.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured in her role as a Museum Ship at Portland Oregon c1939....She was decommissioned in 1919 and efforts by naval enthusiasts in the early 1920s led the Navy to loan Oregon to her namesake State for use as a museum ship. After the start of World War II, the Navy decided in late 1942 to scrap the ship for the war effort, but after work began the Navy requested the ship's return for use as an Ammunition Hulk for the upcoming invasion of Guam in 1944. She remained off the island through the mid-1950s before being sold for scrap in 1956 and broken up in Japan.

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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana pictured at New York c1912.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Massachusetts pictured in 1899.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured in 1896.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1894.