From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11572 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, June 10 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11572 Today's Subjects: ----------------- I'm giving away leather holsters... (Just Pay S&H!) ["Toro Holster" Subject: I'm giving away leather holsters... (Just Pay S&H!) I'm giving away leather holsters... (Just Pay S&H!) http://eyessightmax.today/AW1l-qxg9j5xVNncOBbNtism4ckcGXWcqNprCaT8WNT5TVpviQ http://eyessightmax.today/1w__NnP_qzsjgqLDyIn6pM7dEqSJXBObD9b0f57A9zg1uMb4RQ After the United States entered World War I, Massachusetts was recommissioned for the final time, on 9 June 1917. She was used by Naval Reserve gun crews for gunnery training in Block Island Sound, until 27 May 1918. The battleship was then redeployed to serve as a heavy gun target practice ship near Chesapeake Bay, until the end of World War I. Massachusetts returned to Philadelphia, on 16 February 1919. She was decommissioned for the final time on 31 March 1919, after being re-designated "Coast Battleship Number 2" two days earlier so her name could be reused for the first South Dakota-class dreadnought battleship Massachusetts (BB-54). Massachusetts was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 22 November 1920, and loaned to the United States Department of War, then used as a target ship for experimental artillery. When the US Navy adopted hull numbers that year, Massachusetts was retroactively assigned the number "BB-2". She was scuttled in shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico, off Pensacola, on 6 January 1921, and bombarded by the coastal batteries of Fort Pickens and by railway artillery. On 20 February 1925, the Department of War returned her wreck to the US Navy, which offered her for scrap, but no acceptable bids were received. Eventually Massachusetts was declared the property of the State of Florida, by the Supreme Court of Florida. On 10 June 1993bthe centennial anniversary of her launchingbthe site became the fourth Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve. In 2001, the wreck also was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and it still serves as an artificial reef and diving s ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11572 ***********************************************