This page features selected views of USS Alabama (BB-8) during and after her use as a bombing target.
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Photo #: NH 57483 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) A white phosphorus bomb explodes on a mast top, while the ship in use as a target in Chesapeake Bay, 23 September 1921. An Army Martin twin-engine bomber is flying overhead. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 560 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 924 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) Is hit by a phosphorus bomb, while serving as a target for U.S. Army bombers in Chesapeake Bay, September 1921. An Army DH-4 type single-engine bomber is flying nearby. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-424471 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) Serving as a bombing target in Chesapeake Bay, 27 September 1921. A U.S. Army Martin twin-engine bomber is flying in the right foreground. Wrecks in the distance are the old battleships San Marcos (furthest to the left) and Indiana, both of which had previously been used as targets. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 620 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 263-KN (color) Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) Showing the effect of a phosphorus bomb, while serving as a target for U.S. Army bombers in Chesapeake Bay, 27 September 1921. An Army Martin twin-engine bomber is flying overhead. Also visible, in the foreground, is a Navy F5L seaplane. Wrecks in the distance are the old battleships San Marcos (furthest to the left) and Indiana, both of which had been used as targets. This photograph has been hand-tinted in colors. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 570 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 263 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) Showing the effect of a phosphorus bomb, while serving as a target for U.S. Army bombers in Chesapeake Bay, 27 September 1921. An Army Martin twin-engine bomber is flying overhead. Also visible, in the foreground, is a Navy F5L seaplane. Wrecks in the distance are the old battleships San Marcos (furthest to the left) and Indiana, both of which had been used as targets. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57491 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) The ship's sunken wreck in Chesapeake Bay, photographed from off her starboard side, circa 1921. She had been used as a target for Army bombing tests in September of that year. Donation of Lewis L. Smith, 1960. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 43KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57492 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) The ship's sunken wreck in Chesapeake Bay, photographed from off her port side, circa 1921. She had been used as a target for Army bombing tests in September of that year. Note the blown-open condition of her bow, and collapsed foremast and smokestacks. Donation of Lewis L. Smith, 1960. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52583 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 to starboard of the forward 13"/35 gun turret, showing the deck blown upward as a result of a bomb explosion inside the bow. Donation of Lewis L. Smith, 1960. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 405 pixels |
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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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Photo #: NH 52584 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 the stern, showing the after 13"/35 gun turret and "cage" mainmast. Donation of Lewis L. Smith, 1960. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 435 pixels |
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Photo #: 19-N-11926 ex-USS Alabama (BB-8) Ship's hulk being scrapped at the Union Shipbuilding Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 2 June 1928. Alabama had been sunk in bombing tests in September 1921 and had to be raised for scrapping. Note the cofferdam used to seal her hull amidships, and the dished-in side plating caused by near-miss bomb explosions. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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For other pictures related to this ship, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 27 December 2002