#Alabama photo gun pdf#
#Alabama photo gun archive#

The 12-hour launching sequence involved 36 precisely timed operations, including removal of various shoring which were all color coded to insure their removal in correct order. Launching schedule board for the Alabama (BB-60). Note the sign on the front of the poppet, for the benefit of newsreel cameras at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. The ways are cleared, the launching platform is in position and the poppet is in position under the bow. Library of Congress # LC-USE6-D-001701, courtesy of Mike Green.Īlabama (BB-60) is seen on 15 February 1942, the day before launching. This 70 million dollar super dreadnought is one of several powerful additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly growing fleet under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Library of Congress # LC-USE6-D-0017, courtesy of Mike Green.īehind the scaffolding is one of the most powerful ships ever built, the Alabama (BB-60), which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1942. The ship is scheduled for launching in February 1942 These men are putting in some of the hundreds of thousands of rivets on the huge 70 million dollar battleship Alabama (BB-60), under construction at the Norfolk Yard. Library of Congress # LC-USE6-D-001672, courtesy of Mike Green. Approximately 3000 men are working to complete this mighty mistress of the seas. This is one one-thousandth of the manpower engaged in the construction of Uncle Sam's new $70,000,000 battleship, the Alabama (BB-60), which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1942. Norfolk Navy Yard photo # 10-80-44, courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Norfolk Navy Yard photo # 10-79-43, courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images courtesy of. She will be launched in Febuary, 1942, at Norfolk Navy Yard. The Alabama is a sister ship to the North Carolina (BB-55). The music is broadcast throughout the great construction job via speaker system from a phonograph. While riveters bang away on the deck plates of the Alabama (BB-60), a loud speaker nearby gives out the latest music - sweet and good. (Original Caption) -Norfolk, VA: and here is a new note in battleship building. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. She is now scheduled for launching early next year. Out of this welter of great steel plates and busy workmen will emerge the 35,000-ton battleship Alabama (BB-60) as the dreadnought 'grows' far ahead of schedule at the Norfolk Navy Yard, this view is over the forward part of the main deck. Norfolk Navy Yard photos courtesy of Pieter Bakels.

#Alabama photo gun pdf#

Photo from The Virginian-Pilot Photograph Collection / SMC Photograph Collection from the Norfolk Public Library (Va.)ġ1 photo PDF of the Alabama (BB-60) on building ways, 2 April 1940 thru September 1941. In this photograph dignitaries are driving rivets into the keel of the battleship. Official USN photo courtesy of Mike Green / Leeward Publications 'SHIP'S DATA'.ġ February 1940 photograph of the laying of the keel ceremony for the Alabama (BB-60) at the Norfolk Navy Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. USNHC # NH 93908, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.ġ February 1940 photo of the keel laying for Alabama (BB-60) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. Copied from the Bureau of Ships monograph 'United States Battleship Designs for World War II', dated 1 June 1946. Note the widely spaced skegs, supporting the outboard propeller shafts, that were a unique feature of this battleship class. Hull model number 3536, photographed at the Experimental Model Basin, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., in 1938. Hull test model for the South Dakota class (BB-57 - 60) battleships. Stricken 1 June 1962.įate: Preserved as Memorial, Mobile Alabama, 11 June 1964.įebruary 1940 - October 1942 / Building & Fitting Out Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Norfolk Naval Ship Yard, 1 February 1940.

Machinery, 130,000 SHP Westinghouse Geared Turbines, 4 screws. South Dakota Class Battleship: Displacement 35,000 Tons, Dimensions, 679' 5' (oa) x 108' 2' x 36' 2' (Max).

#Alabama photo gun archive#

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