From collection Ed Coffin Collection
USS INDIANA (BB-01)
Battleship USS INDIANA (BB-01) moored at Rockland for 'Old Home Week', August 1900 Numerous ship's boats are moored to port boat boom; a 2 masted schooner is alongside the port aft gangway Indiana was constructed from a modified version of a design drawn up by a US Navy policy board in 1889 for a short-range battleship. The original design was part of an ambitious naval construction plan to build 33 battleships and 167 smaller ships. The ships proved to be disappointments in service, as they were badly overweight upon completion, their low freeboard hampered operations at sea, and they handled poorly.
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