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BB-40 USS NEW MEXICO
1946 - 1947

Radio Call Sign: November - Echo - Victor - November
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New Mexico Class Battleship: Displacement 32,000 Tons, Dimensions, 624' (oa) x 97' 5" x 31' 1" (Max). Armament 12 x 14"/50 22 x 5"/51, 8 x 3"/50 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 13 1/2" Belt, 18" Turrets, 3 1/2" +2" Decks, 16" Conning Tower. Machinery, 27,500 SHP; G.E. Geared Turbines with electric drive, 4 screws. Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 1084.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York Navy Yard, October 14, 1915. Launched April 23, 1917. Commissioned May 18, 1918. Decommissioned July 19, 1946. Stricken February 25, 1947.
Fate: Sold November 9, 1947 and broken up for scrap in New York.
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BB-40 New Mexico 407k "Your's-For a Price" - If you'd like to buy a real live battleship, get your bid to the Navy no later than Tuesday for the 30,600 ton, 29 year old New Mexico (BB-40). Only hitch in the deal; you have to scrap it as soon possible. After all, Uncle Sam wouldn't care for the competition. Here it is, afloat in Boston, for your inspection.
Note that the secondary armament has already been removed.		 AP wirephoto courtesy of Sunday News New York's Picture Newpaper 28 Sept. 1947, submitted by Joe MacDonald.
BB-40 New Mexico 410k "Drifting battleship" - The city of Newark & the last "fight" of the New Mexico (BB-40),13 Nov. 1947. Page 1 of 4 with photos from AP wirephoto. Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves, HTC, (ret.)
BB-40 New Mexico 356k "Drifting battleship" - The city of Newark & the last "fight" of the New Mexico (BB-40),13 Nov. 1947. Page 2 of 4 with photos from AP wirephoto. Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves, HTC, (ret.)
BB-40 New Mexico 606k "Drifting battleship" - The city of Newark & the last "fight" of the New Mexico (BB-40),13 Nov. 1947. Page 3 of 4 with photos from AP wirephoto. Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves, HTC, (ret.)
BB-40 New Mexico 662k "Drifting battleship" - The city of Newark & the last "fight" of the New Mexico (BB-40),13 Nov. 1947. Page 4 of 4 with photos from AP wirephoto. Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves, HTC, (ret.)
BB-40 New Mexico 357k "Hero's Welcome" - The city of Newark greeted the old battleship New Mexico (BB-40) with school bands, flags and hurrahs as she came to the port for scrapping after a Washington parley had avverted the "Battle of Newark Bay".
The city's "navy" of two tiny fireboats that had planned to bar the the port channel's mouth saluted the battleship with streams of water. 		AP wirephoto courtesy of edition of the Baltimore Evening Sun 20 Nov 1947., submitted by Joe MacDonald.
BB-32 Wyoming361k"Battleship Graveyard" - Three decommissioned battleships, the Idaho (BB-42) (left foreground), the Wyoming (AG-17), (right foreground), and the New Mexico (BB-40), lie alongside a pier at Port Newark, N.J. were they are being scrapped.
Workmen have progressed with the New Mexico which was the subject of considerable controversy between Newark city officials and the scrapping concern. The Wyoming, most recent arrivial, has its gun turrets protected by round white coverings. 		Text courtesy of AP wirephoto of 17 Dec 1947 edition of the Baltimore Evening Sun, submitted by Joe MacDonald. Photo courtesy of Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner & submitted by Robert Hurst.
BB-42 Idaho193k Three battleships are on their way to Naval Vahalla: New Mexico (BB-40), Idaho (BB-42) , & Wyoming (AG-17) 31 Jan. 1948. Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves, HTC, (ret.) Photo added 10/18/09.
(NISMF)371kA guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
World War II Memorial371kA quote made by Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz is inscribed on a granite wall at the National World War II Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Fleet Adm. Nimitz was the United States signatory to the surrender terms aboard the battleship Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, Japan on 2 Sept. 1945, thus ending World War II. Established by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the memorial honors all military veterans of World War II, the citizens on the home front, the nation at large, and the high moral purpose and idealism that motivated the nation's call to arms. On 29 May 2004, the memorial will be formally dedicated with an estimated 200,000 people expected to attend, and includes 100,000 visiting veterans of all wars. U.S. Navy photo # N-0295M-011 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain, courtesy of news.navy.mil.
USS NEW MEXICO BB-40 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Mr. Vernon Dascher
Address: 3064 DeVilla Tr. Saint Louis, MO, 63301
Phone: 636-949-9413
E-mail: None

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