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 | 72k | Colorado (BB-45) at Puget Sound NSY, 1946. | Photo courtesy of Joeseph MacDonald & Pieter Bakels. Photo I.d. by Mike Green. | |
 | 102k | The Alabama (BB-60) is seen tied up to pier 90 at Puget Sound Navy Yard in September, 1946. Directly behind her is the Bunker Hill(CV-17). The foremast and bridge of either the Colorado (BB-45) or Maryland (BB-46) is moored several piers away. | Courtesy of Mike Green from Leeward Publications/ SHIP'S DATA (2 & 3) Naval Supply News, Volume 5, No. 18, 6 September 1946 by the U.S. Naval Station at Seattle, Washington. | |
 | 94k | The Alabama (BB-60) is seen at Puget Sound Navy Yard in September, 1946 being maneuvered by tugs into position in the slipway between pier 90 and pier 91. She was placed in commission in reserve on 21 August 1946 and will be joined by her sister Indiana (BB-58) in a few days. The carrier next to her is the Bunker Hill(CV-17) and the Colorado (BB-45) or Maryland (BB-46) can be seen in the background, several piers away. | Courtesy of Mike Green from Leeward Publications/ SHIP'S DATA (2 & 3) Naval Supply News, Volume 5, No. 18 - 6 September 1946 by the U.S. Naval Station at Seattle, Washington. | |
 | 381k | Newspaper articles on the fate of the Colorado (BB-45) from 1946 - 59. | Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves HTC (ret.) Photo added 10/12/09. | |
 | 1.1m | Puget Sound NSY around 1948. There are five mothballed Essex class (CV-9) carriers at the left. To the right of the carriers are five battleships. I believe they are Alabama (BB-60), West Virginia (BB-48), Maryland (BB-46), Indiana (BB-58), Colorado (BB-45). | USN Photo courtesy of Joe MacDonald. | |
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63k | June 1955, tied up, Indiana (BB-58) is at Pier D, Puget Sound Navy Yard, part of the mothballed fleet. The battleship alongside it is the Colorado (BB-45). | USN photo courtesy of ussindianabb58.com. Photo i.d. courtesy of Mike Green. | |
 | 21k | Colorado (BB-45) about to start the scrapping process in Todd Shipyard in Seattle in 1959. It would take almost two years to finish. | Colorado web page. | |
 | 21k | Start of the scrapping of the conning tower in Todd Shipyard in Seattle in 1959. | Colorado web page. | |
 | 23k | The last remnant of the scrapping of the superstructure in Todd Shipyard in Seattle in 1959. | Colorado web page. | |
 | 25k | The rear turret 16" guns being cut up in Todd Shipyard in Seattle in 1959. | Colorado web page. | |
 | 25k | The last peice of Colorado (BB-45) being cut up in Todd Shipyard in Seattle in Dec, 1960. | Colorado web page. | |
 | 28k | The old wooden #3 drydock at Todd Shipyard in Seattle in 1960 following the ship's scrapping. In the background are Eliott Bay and the Magnolia hill. During the scrapping process the shipyard was faced with the problem of removing tons of cement backing up the armor belt. Someone decided the best bet would be dynamite. It worked fine but the containment failed and a chunk the size of a car was blasted out of the yard and into a parking lot where it flattened a 1955 Chevy pickup trunk. | Text courtesy of Jack Erskine, Port Orchard, WA. Photo courtesy of Colorado web page. | |
 | 371k | A 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, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil, Defense Visual Information Center. | |
 | 371k | A 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. | |
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