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USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is the third of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, they took advantage of an escalator clause that allowed increasing the main battery to 16-inch (406 mm) guns, but refusal to authorize larger ...
Massachusetts was subsequently designated the Commonwealth's official memorial to veterans of the Gulf War. Soon after the arrival of the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the Mayor of Fall River christened the site “Battleship Cove”. In 1975 Tin Can Sailors, Inc., a national organization of 24,000 destroyer veterans, was founded at Battleship Cove.
USS Massachusetts was an Indiana-class, pre-dreadnought battleship and the second United States Navy ship comparable to foreign battleships of its time. [5] Authorized in 1890, and commissioned six years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship class also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery.
The U.S. Navy battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) seen from the after deck of USS Alabama (BB-60), in Casco Bay, Maine (USA), January 1943. The muzzles of Alabama ´s after 40.6 cm/45 guns are in the foreground.
The ship was repaired at Dry Dock Number 3, the only dry dock nearby capable of accommodating the QE2. Another ship to use Dry Dock Number 3 was the former USS Massachusetts (BB-59) from November 1998 to March 1999. Many of the buildings and cranes of the Navy Annex still stand, with their numbers being maintained.
Fall River Heritage State Park is a history-themed public recreation area on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts.The state park encompasses 14 acres (5.7 ha) beside the Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge on Battleship Cove, home of the World War II battleship USS Massachusetts.
Amongst these were the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2); the battleships USS Massachusetts (BB-59), now preserved as a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Massachusetts, and USS Nevada (BB-36); and USS Salem (CA-139), the world's last all-gun heavy warship, which is still preserved at Fore River as the main exhibit of the United States Naval ...
Location Notes USS Alabama [30] 1942 ... USS Massachusetts [104] 1941. United States Battleship: Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts Nantucket [105] 1936.