USS Alabama Battleship

USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park is not far from Mobile, Alabama. The park has one battleship, one submarine, around ten different types of armed vehicles as well as quite a lot of airplanes in display, including F4, F14, ,F15, F16, F18, SR71, B52 as well as airplanes used in WW II.

The most important one , of course, is USS Alabama. The following is what I got from Internet. It should give you guys a quick introduction.

USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota–class battleship, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy named after the US state of Alabama.[A] Alabama was commissioned in 1942 and served in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. She was decommissioned in 1947 and assigned to the reserve duty. She was retired in 1962. In 1964, Alabama was taken to Mobile Bay and opened as a museum ship the following year. The ship was added to the National Historic Landmark registry in 1986.

Class & type:         South Dakota–class (1939) battleship
Displacement:         35,000 long tons  standard
Length:         680 ft (210 m)
Beam:         108.2 ft (33.0 m)
Draft:         36.2 ft (11.0 m)
Propulsion:         oil-fired steam turbines, 4 shafts
Speed:         27.5 kn (31.6 mph; 50.9 km/h)
Range:         15,000 nmi (17,000 mi; 28,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:         1,793 officers and men
Sensors and
processing systems:         radar
Armament:         9 × 16 in (410 mm)/45 cal Mark 6 guns
20 × 5 in (130 mm)/38 cal guns
24 × Bofors 40 mm guns
22 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (ever-increasing)
Aircraft carried:         OS2U Kingfisher scout planes

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漂亮。

很精彩。有震撼力。

J_Y_L 發表於 2013-1-12 07:43
漂亮。

Thanks a lot!

K_P_C 發表於 2013-1-12 11:37
很精彩。有震撼力。

Thanks for your comments!