Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Indiana Class

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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana pictured at League Island Navy Yard,Philadelphia c1899.During WWI she was a Training Ship for gun crews.
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A nice detailed close up of Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Massachusetts pictured in drydock at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898.
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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 Massachusetts pictured at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn in 1904....She was recommissioned for the final time, on June 9th 1917. She was used by Naval Reserve gun crews for Gunnery Training in Block Island Sound, until May 27th 1918. She was then redeployed to serve as a heavy gun Target Practice Ship near Chesapeake Bay, until the end of World War I. Massachusetts returned to Philadelphia, on February 16th 1919. She was decommissioned for the final time on March 31st 1919, after being re-designated 'Coast Battleship Number 2' two days earlier so her name could be reused for the first South Dakota-Class Dreadnought Battleship Massachusetts.
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Wreck of the USS Massachusetts

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Massachusetts pictured in New York Navy Yard Drydock, Brooklyn in August 1896...After the United States entered World War I, Massachusetts was recommissioned for the final time, on June 9th 1917. She was used by Naval Reserve gun crews for gunnery training in Block Island Sound, until May 27th 1918. she was then redeployed to serve as a heavy gun target practice ship near Chesapeake Bay, until the end of World War I.
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Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Oregon pictured in No 2 Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1913...USS Oregon participated in the opening of Dry Dock 2 on March 2nd, 1913, making her the first ship to enter the dry dock, which was 827 feet long, 145 feet wide and 38 feet deep...Oregon was built at Union Ironwork Shipyards, San Francisco in 1893....After entering service in 1896, Oregon briefly served with the Pacific Squadron before being transferred to the East Coast of the United States as tensions with Spain over Cuba grew in early 1898. She completed a 14,000-nautical-mile journey around South America in the span of 66 days, arriving shortly after the start of the Spanish–American War. She thereafter took part in the blockade of Santiago de Cuba, which culminated in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on July 3rd, where Oregon contributed to the destruction of the Spanish squadron in Cuba. After the war, Oregon was deployed to the Asiatic Squadron, serving during the Philippine–American War and the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China. She returned to the United States in 1906, when she was decommissioned and placed in reserve for the next five years, during which she was modernized.
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. 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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Interior of a 13 inch/35 calibre twin turret pictured on Indiana Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Massachusetts in 1897.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Indiana pictured in 1903..She was built at William Cramp & Sons Shipyard at Philadelphia and completed in 1895. Indiana served in the Spanish–American War (1898) as part of the North Atlantic Squadron. She took part in both the blockade of Santiago de Cuba and the battle of Santiago de Cuba, which occurred when the Spanish fleet attempted to break through the blockade. Although unable to join the chase of the escaping Spanish Cruisers, she was partly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish Destroyers Plutón and Furor. After the war she quickly became obsolete—despite several modernisations—and spent most of her time in commission as a Training Ship or in the reserve fleet, with her last commission during World War I as a Training Ship for gun crews. She was decommissioned for the third and final time in January 1919 and was shortly after reclassified Coast Battleship Number 1 so that the name Indiana could be reused. She was sunk in shallow water as a target in aerial bombing tests in 1920 and her hull was sold for scrap in 1924.
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A close up of INDIANA's bridge area......... :) DFO
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