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USS Alabama
BB 60
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Photographed by Scott Spencer at
Battleship Memorial Park
Mobile, Alabama

USS Alabama 1945
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Class: South Dakota
Type: Battleship
Launched: February 16, 1942
At: Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia
Commissioned: August 16, 1942

Length: 680 feet
Beam: 108 feet
Draft: 36 feet
Displacement: 35,000 tons
Armament: Nine 16-inch/45 caliber, twenty 5-inch/38 caliber, forty-eight 40mm and fifty-two 20mm guns

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Citadel. Nice pic
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Cool view from citadel		 al03.jpg (49005 bytes)
View looking aft high up		 al04.jpg (42782 bytes)
Quarterdeck detail
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40mm Bofors deck level mount		 al06.jpg (38704 bytes)
Nice pic.  Note manhole covers for tank access		 al07.jpg (33911 bytes)
5" DP twin mounts		 al08.jpg (35634 bytes)
View from the bow
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So that's what's inside the ears of a 16" turret		 al23.jpg (37744 bytes)
16" guns are BIG
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Aircraft handling crane, catapult, 40mm tubs
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Stern 40mm tubs, directors and crane
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Stack, citadel, masts		 al14.jpg (38361 bytes)
Masts		 al12.jpg (13601 bytes)
Alabama poses in Ms 22 paint scheme
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Citadel, stacks, masts
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Stack and citadel		 al18.jpg (34739 bytes)
Mk 38 16" gun director and Mk 37 5" director (foreground)		 al19.jpg (21312 bytes)
Mk 12 and Mk 22 "orange peel" radar atop Mk 37 director		 al20.jpg (23315 bytes)
40mm mounts and Mk 37 director