Indiana-class
An item referred to the magazine Army and Naval Journal reporting that the bilge keels fitted on the Massachusetts (1) performed such well during a voyage under unfavourable weather conditions that the navy decided to fit also out the Indiana (2) with such keels.
Notes
1. Indiana-class consisting of the Oregon, Massachusetts and Indiana, preceded by the Maine and Texas and succeeded by the Iowa. The first American battleships which were comparable by the ones built for European navies although still for coastal defence tasks with a freeboard such low that it was dangerous to act on the open oceans. Building ordered on 30 June 1890, laid down at William Cramp&Sons Ship&Engine Building Corporation, Philadelphia, USA on 25 June 1891, launched by Leila Herbert on 10 June 1893, commissioned on 10 June 1896, decommissioned on 8 January 1906, modernized including improving balance and traversing of main gun turrets, although considered to be obsolete still recommissioned on 2 May 1910, decommissioned on 23 May 1914, recommissioned on 9 June 1917, renamed Coast battleship Number 2 on 29 March 1919, decommissioned on 31 March 1919, stricken on 22 November 1920, loaned to the War Department, scuttled in shallow water off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, USA becoming a target for artillery experiments by the coastal batteries of Fort Pickens and even railway artillery since January 1921, transferred back to the navy on 20 February 1925, efforts to sell her to be broken up then and in 1956 were fruitless lacking satisfying bids and nowadays still existing as an artificial reef.
2. Indiana-class consisting of the Oregon, Massachusetts and Indiana, preceded by the Maine and Texas and succeeded by the Iowa. The first American battleships which were comparable by the ones built for European navies although still for coastal defence tasks with a freeboard such low that it was dangerous to act on the open oceans. Building ordered on 30 June 1890, laid down at William Cramp&Sons Ship&Engine Building Corporation, Philadelphia, USA on 7 May 1891, launched by Jessie Miller on 28 February 1893, commissioned on 20 November 1895, decommissioned on 24 December 1903, modernized including improving balance and traversing of main gun turrets, decommissioned on 9 January 1906, recommissioned on 24 May 1917, served as a gunnery training ship decommissioned on 31 January 1919, renamed coast battleship Number 1 on 29 March 1919, sunk while used as target in shallow waters in the Chesapeake Bay for aircrafts dropping dummy bombs on 1 November 1920 and sold to be broken up on 19 March 1924. In 1913 there seems to be plans have existed to use her as a target but which was not executed.
