There are 1148 users online
You can register for a user account here.
Login
Military Photos
Main Menu
Online
Library of Congress
Past Articles
Military Quotes
Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there. -- Lieutenant General V.H. Krulak |
USS Massachusetts (Battleship # 2, BB-2), 1896-1921, later renamed Coast Battleship # 2(147 total words in this text)(2334 Reads)  After the war, Massachusetts was part of the North Atlantic Squadron. In 1910, she became a practice ship for the U.S. Naval Academy, and made two midshipmen cruises to Europe. During World War I, the old battleship supported gunnery training efforts off the east coast. She was renamed Coast Battleship # 2 and decommissioned in March 1919. In November 1920, she was struck from the Navy List and loaned to the War Department as a target. Sunk off Pensacola, Florida, in January 1921, her hulk remains there to this day. |
Military History
Forum Posts
This Day in History
1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
