Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: clay@swbatl.sbc.com (Patrick Clay - 529-7760) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Battleships: where are they now? Message-ID: <1990Oct1.022020.2963@cbnews.att.com> Date: 1 Oct 90 02:20:20 GMT References: <1990Sep24.001114.22188@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: Southwestern Bell Lines: 34 Approved: military@att.att.com From: clay@swbatl.sbc.com (Patrick Clay - 529-7760) In article <1990Sep24.001114.22188@cbnews.att.com> jimcat@rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes: > > >From: jimcat@rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) > I'm curious about the locations of battleships in the United States >and elsewhere (if there are any elsewhere). Other than the four >currently in service, I know of the USS Massachusetts in Fall River, MA, >and I heard that the USS Texas is located somewhere near Houston. Are >there any other similar museum-exhibit battleships around the country? >And are there others elsewhere in the world? (I'd think that the >Royal Navy, at least, would have preserved a few). >-- I'm not aware of any battleships that the Royal Navy has preserved, although they do have HMS Victory at Portsmouth, and HMS Belfast in London. Another U.S. battleship museum is the USS Alabama (sister to Massachusetts) which is in Mobile, Alabama. Also there is the WWII sub USS Drum, and some good aircraft and vehicle exhibits, including an M-60 tank and a B-52. Not far away in Pensacola, Florida (about 60 miles) is the Naval Aviation Museum, which has representatives of naval aircraft spanning nearly 80 years now. They're also trying to get the USS Lexington as a permanent exhibit when she's retired sometime in the next few years (she's currently the oldest and smallest carrier in comission, albeit as training ship.) If anyone is interested in further information, I can get it to you--Pensacola is my hometown and I went to school in Mobile for a while. --Patrick Clay -- clay@swbatl: Patrick Clay 550 Maryville Centre Drive Ste. 400 St. Louis, MO 63141 (314)-529-7760