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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 93909

USS Indiana (BB-58)


View under the ship's hull, looking aft to show all four propellers. Taken in drydock at the Newport News Ship Building and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 13 March 1942.
This photograph shows the outboard skegs, incorporating the outer propeller shafts, that were a feature of this class of battleship. The ship's twin rudders are directly aft of the inboard propellers.

Copied from the Bureau of Ships monograph "United States Battleship Designs for World War II", dated 1 June 1946.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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3 March 2000