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BB-27 USS MICHIGAN
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1906 - 1914
1915 - 1924


South Carolina Class Battleship: Displacement 16,000 Tons, Dimensions, 452' 9" (oa) x 80' 3" x 27' 1" (Max). Armament 8 x 12"/45 22 x 3"/50, 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 11" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 12" Conning Tower. Machinery, 16,500 IHP; 2 vertical, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 18.5 Knots, Crew 869.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York, Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ., December 17, 1906. Launched May 26 1908. Commissioned January 4, 1910. Decommissioned February 11, 1922. Stricken November 10, 1923.
Fate: Broken up for scrap at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard during 1924.
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BB-27 Michigan66kUsher, Nathaniel Reilly, CAPT # 1 [04.01.1910}Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
Photo added 06/10/11.
BB-27 Michigan18kCaptain Who Was in Charge of the Battleship Michigan (BB-27)
Captain Albert P. Niblack was in charge of the Battleship Michigan when it grounded off Capes Henry coast on Thanksgiving day. He was feeling his way into the harbor between the Capes Henry & Charles, and as a thick fog had settled down he concluded not to try to make the entrance to Chesapeake. He anchored some ten miles out to sea. In the morning when the tide went out he found the stern of the vessel, supposed to be in thirty feet of water, was resting on the bottom.
He was the 3rd CO of the Michigan; from 04.12.1913 to 04.12.1913
Capehart, Edward Everett, CAPT # 2 [06.10.1911 04.12.1913] is camera shy.
Captains text courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves
Image and text provided by University of Oregon, Knight Library; Eugene, OR.
Photo from The Evening Herald.(Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 12 December 1914, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
BB-27 Michigan131kBrittain, Carlo Bonaparte, CAPT # 5 :RADM [01.12.1915 00.06.1918]
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
Photo added 06/10/11.
BB-27 Michigan51kDayton, John Havens, CAPT # 6 :RADM [20.06.1918 07.09.1918]
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
Photo added 06/10/11.

Additional Michigan Images
2 General Views Of Michigan From The Library Of Congress Server.

USS MICHIGAN BB-27 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Not Applicable To This Ship
Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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