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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 ...
Mobile, Alabama. Battleship Memorial Park is home to the USS Alabama Battleship, a World War II behemoth that served in the North Atlantic and South Pacific waters. Commissioned in 1942, the ship ...
USS Utah: United States Hawaii: Pearl Harbor: United States. 1909 Florida-class battleship Battleship: USS Utah Memorial, Sunken wreck USS Washtenaw County: United States Oregon: Rainier: United States: 1952 LST: Landing Ship, Tank: Preservation status on hold [55] USS Wisconsin: United States Virginia: Norfolk: United States: 1943 Iowa class ...
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 ...
Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama 30°40′54″N 88°00′52″W / 30.68178°N 88.01448°W / 30.68178; -88.01448 ( USS Battleship which served in the North Atlantic then in the Pacific, including bombardments of Okinawa and the Japanese mainland.
Alabama was transferred to the USS Alabama Battleship Commission, which had acquired the ship in order to turn her into a memorial. She was towed out of Bremerton on 2 July 1964, to Mobile, Alabama, where she currently resides as a museum ship, the main attraction of Battleship Memorial Park. [46]
CAMDEN — BB-62. USS New Jersey. The Battleship. After over two decades at its pier here, this historic ship and waterfront museum is preparing to move.