BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN (BB-64) PHOTOS - 1941-1949
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Ship's Crest. |
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Commissioning pamphlet from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, April 16 1944. Small print reads "Displacement 52,000 tons at full load; length 880 feet, beam 108 feet, draft 36 feet, according to unofficial figures. Main battery: nine 16-inch guns firing shells weighing over one ton apiece. Secondary battery: twenty 5-inch guns. Antiaircraft batteries: over 125 forty-millimeter and twenty-millimeter guns. Credited with speed above 30 knots. This commemorative print dedicated to the loyal employees of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, whose energy, thought and devotion to duty created this great ship. Presented to the employees of the Philadelphia Navy Yard 1945" |
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Wisconsin (BB-64) under construction at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The ship was laid down on 25 January 1941; launched on 7 December 1943, and commissioned on 16 April 1944. |
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At anchor on 30 May 1944, during her Atlantic coast shakedown period. |
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Leaving Philadelphia Navy Yard for the Pacific, 24 September 1944. |
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