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Two views of the old second class battleship TEXAS, expended as a gunfire target years later. ;) She only carried 2 single 12" in a staggered arrangement. This can be seen in these two opposite beam photos! DFO
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Lead Ship, Unprotected Cruiser USS Montgomery pictured c1900.
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Update: USS Texas Drydocking & Repairs Scheduled

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Protected Cruiser USS Newark pictured in 1891.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Maine pictured in the Hudson River in 1905...Maine was laid down in February 1899 at William Cramp & Sons Shipyard at Philadelphia. She was launched in July 1901 and commissioned into the fleet in December 1902. She was armed with a main battery of four 12-inch guns and could steam at a top speed of 18 knots...Maine served in the Atlantic for the entirety of her career with the North Atlantic Fleet, which later became the Atlantic Fleet; during the early years of her service, she was the fleet flagship, until she was replaced in 1907. Later that year, she joined the cruise of the Great White Fleet, though her heavy coal consumption prevented her from continuing with the fleet past San Francisco. After returning to the U.S., she served as the 3rd Squadron flagship. During America's participation in World War I from April 1917 to November 1918, Maine was used as a Training Ship. She remained in active service until May 1920, when she was decommissioned. She was ultimately sold for scrap in January 1922 and broken up for scrap under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty signed that year.
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Escort Carrier USS Chenango pictured at Seattle in January 1945.
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Civil War veteran, Steam Screw Frigate USS Wabash pictured in her role as Receiving Ship at Charlestown Navy Yard c1900..in the background is the hulk of dynamite gun Cruiser USS Vesuvius.
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Dynamite gun Cruiser USS Vesuvius pictured c1890...Vesuvius carried three 15-inch cast-iron pneumatic guns, invented by D. M. Medford and developed by Edmund Zalinski, a retired officer of the United States Army.They were mounted forward side by side at a fixed elevation of 16 degrees. Gun barrels were 55 feet long with the muzzles extending 15 feet through the deck 37 feet abaft the bow. In order to train these weapons, the ship had to be aimed, like a gun, at its target. Compressed air from a 1000 psi reservoir projected the shells from the dynamite guns. Two air compressors were available to recharge the reservoir...The shells fired from the guns were steel or brass casings 7 feet long with the explosive contained in the conical forward part of the casing and spiral vanes on the after part to rotate the projectile. The explosive used in the shells themselves was actually a 'desensitized blasting gelatin' composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. It was less sensitive to shock than regular dynamite, but still sensitive enough that compressed air, rather than powder, had to be utilized as the propellant. Shells containing 550 pounds of explosive had a maximum range of 1 mile, but range could be extended to 4000 yards by reducing projectile weight to 200 pounds. Maximum muzzle velocity was 800 feet per second. Range could be reduced by releasing less compressed air from the reservoir. Ten shells per gun were carried on board, and 15 shells were fired in 16 minutes 50 seconds during an 1889 test. The shells employed an electrical fuse which could be either set to explode on contact or delayed to explode underwater.
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L Class Submarines USS L-11 and L-9 pictured in refit at Charlestown Navy Yard in 1919.
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Views of the old LANGLEY being converted to a carrier........... ;) DFO
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