DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 61254
USS Michigan (BB-27)
View looking aft along the port side, showing barrel of burst
12-inch gun on deck with the gun's rear portion in Turret # 2.
Photographed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 25
September 1916.
Note holes in superstructure and in the "cage" foremast
caused by this accident.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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