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USS PENNSYLVANIA possibly docked at Princes Pier at Port Phillip, Melbourne

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Roger W said:

  How can this photo have been "taken March 6, 2013"? Perhaps an image was scrapped on that date. The USS Pennsylvania was scrapped by sinking in 1948.

• Andy Waugh said:

  USS Pennsylvania visited Australia in 1925

• tormentor4555 said:

  date Means it was uploaded on March 6 2013

• Swordscookie said:

  A few extracts from the Wiki record of the Pennsylvania she was a very distinguished ship when she was decommissioned! She was laid down on 27 October 1913, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia.[1] She was launched on 16 March 1915, sponsored by Elizabeth Kolb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and commissioned on 12 June 1916, with Captain Henry B. Wilson in command. She departed with the Fleet from San Francisco on 15 April 1925, and after war games in the Hawaiian area, departed Honolulu, Hawaii on 1 July, en route to Melbourne, Australia. After a visit to Wellington, New Zealand, she returned to San Pedro on 26 September.

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  Andy Waugh Swordscookie thanks for the info Andy Waugh and swordscookie, our records have been updated. :)