USS Massachusetts (BB-2)
USS Massachusetts was the second ship of the United States Navy to belong to the Indiana battleship class. This ship was ordered from William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 30, 1890, and six years later was commissioned.
Its main role was to protect the coast, but the ship also participated in other naval operations. After the end of active service, she was still included in the reserve fleet. It was last decommissioned in March 1919 and was used as a training target and sunk in a shallow bay in Florida. The wreck now serves as an artificial reef and is a very popular destination for divers.
technical parameters USS Massachusetts (BB-2)
| Name | Massachusetts |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Ordered | 30 June 1890 |
| Renamed | Coast Battleship Number 2 29 March 1919 |
| Laid down | 25 June 1891 |
| Launched | 10 June 1893 |
| Commissioned | 10 June 1896 |
| Decommissioned | 8 January 1906 |
| Recommissioned | 2 May 1910 |
| Decommissioned | 23 May 1914 |
| Recommissioned | 9 June 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 31 March 1919 |
| Stricken | 22 November 1920 |
| Fate | Scuttled, 6 January 1921 |
| Class and type | Indiana-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Length | 350 ft 11 in (107.0 m) |
| Beam | 69 ft 3 in (21.1 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Displacement | 10,288 long tons (10,453 t) standard |
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| Installed power | 9,000 ihp (6,700 kW) (design) – 4 × Scotch boilers |
| Range | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
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| Complement | 473 officers and men |
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USS Massachusetts (BB-2)
