Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Indiana Class

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured in Puget Sound Navy Yard Dry Dock at Bremerton on April 11th 1897.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured in Dry Dock No 2 at Puget Sound Navy Yard on March 2nd 1913.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Massachusetts pictured during the Spanish-American War victory celebrations in the Hudson River in 1898.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured at Portland in July 1912.

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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana pictured in 1912.

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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana pictured off Philadelphia Navy Yard on May 20th 1910...If you zoom in on the left shoreline is a ferris wheel, possibly at the Woodside Amusement Park.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured at Mare Island Navy Yard c1912.....Reactivated in 1911, Oregon spent the next several years cruising off the West Coast of the United States, frequently going in and out of service. During the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1918, she escorted a convoy for the Siberian expedition. The ship 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 c1895.

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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana pictured in the Whitney Basin at Brooklyn Navy Yard on February 1st 1906.

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Captain's cabin pictured aboard Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana dated February 2nd 1906.