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55k | A post-war view while in Puget Sound, February 1946. | USN photo. | |
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158k | 17 March 1946. The Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB-59)& Alabama (BB-60) tied up at the Embarcadero, San Francisco. | USN photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Text courtesy of ussindianabb58.com. | |
 | 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. Photo added 08/03/08. | |
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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. | |
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82k | The battleship Indiana (BB-58), being towed out into Puget Sound from the Bremerton, Washington Naval Shipyard to begin her final journey to Richmond California where she was scrapped. | Courtesy of Stan Svec. | |
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65k | The battleship Indiana (BB-58), being towed under the Golden Gate Bridge to Richmond California where she was scrapped. | Copy San Francisco Examiner. | |
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125k | The battleship Indiana (BB-58), nicknamed the Hoosier Houseboat - the black maw of one of her 16-inch guns staring at the camera-is headed for the oblivion of the scrap pile. The steel in her proud hull is being nonchalantly cut up by the torches. She was towed under San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge into Richmond. After she's gone, there will be only 8 surviving American battleships, symbols of an extinct breed. | Courtesy of Stan Svec & Joe Perchetti. | |
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74k | Shortly before 22 November 1963, scrapping at Richmond California. | Courtesy of Eric Dahlstrom. | |
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142k | 22 November 1963, scrapping at Richmond California. | Copy San Francisco Examiner. | |
 | 376k | 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, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 371 | 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 Sept. 2, 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 May 29, 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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