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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Montana (BB-51), 1918 Program -- construction cancelled in 1922

USS Montana, a 43,200-ton South Dakota class battleship, was laid down at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in September 1920. Her construction was suspended in February 1922, under the terms of the Washington Naval Limitations Treaty, and she was subsequently formally cancelled. Stricken from the Navy List and sold in October-November 1923, her hull was scrapped on the building ways.

This page features our only view of USS Montana (BB-51), showing the ship under construction.

For pictorial coverage of the design of this class of warships, see: South Dakota class battleships.

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Photo #: NH 74062

USS Montana (BB-51)


Under construction at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 3 January 1921.
The view was taken from the shipway's overhead crane, looking forward over the ship's hull, with the after double-bottom structure in the foreground.

Collection of William H. Topley. Courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1971.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 144KB; 570 x 765 pixels

 


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8 May 2000