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Battleship Memorial Park is a military history park and museum on the western shore of Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama. Its notable aircraft and museum ships include the South Dakota -class battleship USS Alabama and Gato -class submarine USS Drum .
USS Alabama (BB-60) is a retired battleship. She was the fourth and final member of the South Dakota class of fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1940s. 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 ...
USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, a type of fish. Drum is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park. Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. She is the oldest of her class ...
Snow falls on the retired battleship and aircraft at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 (11:27 a.m. ET) More Than 100,000 Without Power Across ...
The Freedom class is one of the most recent ships to join the U.S. Navy, having entered service in 2008. It is a coastal combat ship, a fast, mission-focused platform intended for near-shore or ...
USS Alabama: United States Alabama: Mobile: United States: 1942 South Dakota class (1939) Battleship: Led the American Fleet into Tokyo Bay on September 5, 1945 [2] USS Albacore: United States New Hampshire: Portsmouth: United States: 1953 Albacore Class: Submarine: National Register of Historic Places [3] USS Aries (PHM-5) United States ...
USS Alabama: Alabama 14 January 1986: 4: USS Albacore: New Hampshire 11 April 1989: Port of Portsmouth Maritime Museum 5: Alma (scow schooner) California 7 July 1988: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park: 6: American Eagle: Maine 4 December 1991: 7: Arthur Foss: Washington 11 April 1989: 8: SS Badger: Michigan 20 January 2016 [3] 9
January 14, 1986 (Mobile: Mobile: One of two surviving South Dakota-class battleships, Alabama was commissioned in 1942 and spent forty months in active service in World War II's Pacific theater, earning nine battle stars over twenty-six engagements with the Japanese.