What is Uss Indiana (bb-1)?

Information about Uss Indiana (bb-1)

Career
USS Indiana underway, sometime between 1895 and 1900 USS Indiana underway sometime between 1895 and 1900
Laid down:	7 May 1891
Launched:	28 February 1893
Commissioned:	20 November 1895
Decommissioned:	31 January 1919
Status:	Used as a target during testing of aircraft bombs and then scrapped
General Characteristics
Displacement:	10,288 tons
Length:	350 feet 11 inches
Beam:	69 feet 4 inches
Draught:	24 feet
Propulsion:	2 × vertical, inverted, triple expansion engines 2 × screws 9,000 IHP
Speed:	15 knots
Complement:	473 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 13-inch guns 8 × 8-inch guns 4 × 6-inch guns 20 × 6-pounders 6 × 1-pounders
Armour:	18 inch belt 15 inch turrets 3 inch decks 10 inch conning tower
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The first USS Indiana (Battleship No. 1) was the first modern battleship of the United States Navy. She was modeled primarily after the design of Lt. Lewis Nixon, who worked for William Cramp and Sons as its chief naval architect until opening his own shipyard in January of 1895.

She was laid down 7 May 1891, by William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was launched 28 February 1893, sponsored by Miss Jessie Miller (daughter of the Attorney General William H.H. Miller), and commissioned on 20 November 1895, with Captain Robley D. Evans in command.

Following fitting out at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Indiana trained off the coast of New England. This duty continued until the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, when Indiana formed part of Admiral William Sampson's Squadron. The ten ships sailed south to intercept Pascual Cervera's Spanish squadron, known to be en route to the Caribbean Sea. Indiana took part in bombardment of San Juan on 12 May 1898, and returned to Key West with the squadron to guard Havana, Cuba, on 18 May. After it was discovered that Cervera was at Santiago de Cuba, Sampson joined Winfield Scott Schley there 1 June and took up the blockade.

In late June, Army units arrived and were landed for an assault on Santiago. Cervera saw that his situation was desperate and began his gallant dash out of Santiago 3 July 1898, hoping to outrun the American blockaders. Indiana did not join in the initial chase because of her extreme eastern position on the blockade, but was near the harbor entrance when destroyers Pluton and Furor emerged. In a short time both ships were destroyed by Indiana's guns and those of the other ships. Meanwhile the remaining Spanish vessels were sunk or run ashore, in one of the two major naval engagements of the war.

Indiana returned to her previous pattern of training exercises and fleet maneuvers after the war, and made practice cruises for midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy before decommissioning on 29 December 1903.

The battleship recommissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 9 January 1906. During this phase of her career, Indiana served with the Naval Academy Practice Squadron, sailing to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. At Queenstown, Ireland, she fired a 21-gun salute on 22 June 1911, in honor of the coronation of King George V. This important work in training the Navy's future leaders ended in 1914 and she decommissioned at Philadelphia on 23 May 1914.

Indiana recommissioned a second time 24 May 1917, and served through World War I as a training ship for gun crews off Tompkinsville, New York, and in the York River of Virginia. She decommissioned at Philadelphia 31 January 1919. On 29 March 1919, she was renamed "Coast Battleship Number 1" so that the name Indiana could be assigned to a newly authorized battleship. She was used as a target in an important series of tests designed to determine the effectiveness of aerial bombs and was sunk in November 1920. Her hulk was sold for scrap 19 March 1924.

See USS Indiana for other Navy ships of the same name.

References

Alden, John D. American Steel Navy: A Photographic History of the U.S. Navy from the Introduction of the Steel Hull in 1883 to the Cruise of the Great White Fleet. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989. ISBN 0870212486
Friedman, Norman. U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985. ISBN 0870217151
Reilly, John C. and Robert L. Scheina. American Battleships 1996-1923: Predreadnought Design and Construction. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1980. ISBN 0870215248

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