An item reported that the American 12.000 ton battleship USS Indiana launched in 1893 and participated in the battle of Santiago would be converted into a target ship.(1)
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1. 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.
