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USS Indiana, a 10,288-ton battleship, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and commissioned in November 1895. She spent her entire career in the Atlantic area. During the Spanish-American War, Indiana operated in the Caribbean, and participated in the 3 July 1898 naval battle off Santiago, Cuba.
In the years following that conflict, the battleship operated with the fleet and with the Naval Academy Practice Squadron. Indiana served as a training ship during the First World War. Decommissioned for the last time in January 1919, her name was changed to Coast Battleship # 1 a few months later. She was subsequently used as a target in ordnance tests, being sunk in November 1920.
This page features several views related to USS Indiana.
If higher resolution reproductions than these digital images are desired, see "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
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Photo #: NH 73975 USS Indiana (BB-1) Undated photograph, probably taken circa 1895-1900. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 55,051 bytes; 740 x 575 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61210 USS Indiana (BB-1) Photograph taken in the summer of 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 58,355 bytes; 740 x 545 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52644 USS Indiana (BB-1) Photographed off New York City by George P. Hall & Sons, Summer 1898. USS Iowa (BB-4) is in the distance, beyond Indiana's starboard side. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 60,859 bytes; 600 x 780 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 91935 USS Indiana (BB-1) In drydock at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY, during 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 56,056 bytes; 585 x 670 pixels |
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The following photograph shows Indiana in the background,
with another ship as the main subject of the view:
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Photo #: NH 78627-KN (Color) "Before the War" Painting by Carlton T. Chapman, depicting the U.S. North Atlantic Squadron anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, circa late March or early April 1898. Ships present are (left to right: USS New York, USS Indiana, USS Texas, USS Massachusetts, USS Columbia and USS Iowa. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. Donation of Capt. R.G. Colbert, USN. Navy Art Accession #: 63-33-B U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 94,403 bytes; 570 x 780 pixels |
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The following photographs show scenes on board Indiana:
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Photo #: NH 52653 USS Indiana (BB-1) View on the forecastle, circa 1897, showing some of her crewmen, her pilothouse, forward 13-inch gun turret and forward port 8- inch gun turret. Halftone photograph, copied from the contemporary publication Uncle Sam's Navy, 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67,060 bytes; 740 x 616 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 93856 USS Indiana (BB-1) Crewmen standing atop her forward port side 8-inch gun turret, circa the later 1890s. The small steamer Riverside is visible on the right. Courtesy of Paul Silverstone, 1982. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 59,602 bytes; 575 x 770 pixels |
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