DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 52586
Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8)
View on board the ship's sunken wreck, in Chesapeake Bay, after
she had been used as a target for Army bombing tests in September
1921.
This photograph looks forward from amidships, showing a boat
crane, collapsed smokestacks and other wreckage.
Donation of Lewis L. Smith, 1960.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 460 pixels
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