USS ALABAMA Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 3/27/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Be looking for a box that floated off the Mighty Bama. You don't have to enter the park to find this one. Road-side cache!

ALABAMA (BB 60) earned nine battle stars on the Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal. She also earned the Navy Occupation Service Medal Pacific for the period of 2 - 23 September 1945.

It took almost three months to tow the 35,000 ton dreadnought from her Bremerton, Washington home base down the West Coast toward Alabama. Scrapping through the Panama Canal, where she had eleven inches of clearance on each side, and into the Gulf of Mexico, she entered Mobile Bay September 14, 1964 to complete her 5,600 mile voyage “home”, the longest ton/mile tow in history.

Standing tall against the passive mirror-like serenity of the waters of Mobile Bay, a mighty warrior, who defended her nation well against enemy oppression in times of turmoil and strife, now reflects the pride of a Grateful Nation who hopefully will never forget what her sailors and millions of other Americans did to insure the precious freedoms the United States enjoy today.

Battleship USS ALABAMA, a legend in her own time, never losing any sailors due to enemy fire, her guns never again to fire in anger, a final, lasting memorial and tribute to the Greatest Generation.

All Alabama citizens as well as all Americans should take pride in the fact that none of their taxpayer-generated State General Fund dollars, or any other state tax revenues, have ever been used for daily park operations. The Park has been self-sufficient since opening four decades ago and recently concluded a $15 million dollar restoration project for its two National Historic Landmarks.

USS ALABAMA STATS
Sister Ships: Massachusetts, Indiana, South Dakota
Launched: 16 February 1942, Commissioned: 16 August 1942
Displacement: 35,000 to 44,500 tons.
Length: 680 ft. - Beam: 108 ft. 2 in.
Height of truck light above keel: 194 ft.
Design Draft: 33 ft. 8 in.
Actual weight when fully loaded: 42,500 tons.
Speed: 28 knots - Range: 15,000 Nautical miles at 15 knots
Crew: 127 Officers, and 2,205 Enlisted Men
Armament:
9 - 16"/45 cal. Guns (3 turrets)
20 - 5"/38 cal. Guns (10 mounts)
48 - 40mm Guns (12 mounts)
52 - 20mm Guns
Armor:
Turret faces: 18 inches
Conning tower: 16 inches
Side armor: 12.2 inches, tapering to 1 inch at bottom.
Power Plants: Horsepower: 130,000 hp
4 engine rooms. each carrying 2 boilers and 2 turbines. Four propellers, 2 five bladed and 2 four bladed, each weighing 18.2 tons.

Congrats to babama - FTF 4/02/2007

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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