By on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 04:42 pm:
Today, March 6, 2003 finishing touches will be added to an exhibit at The Dundalk/ Patapsco Neck Historical Society in Dundalk Maryland, Featuring the Battleship USS Maryland BB-46.
Included in the display will be photos of the ship, Blue prints, maps, books, photos of sailors, copies of deck logs, a tape of a Baltimore radio station broadcast of the WW II saga of the Maryland and even copies of " The Catapult", the Fighting Marys shipboard newletter.
The USS Maryland was commissioned on July 21, 1921. She was 624 feet long, displaced over 32,000 tons and was the first US Navy ship to mount 16" guns and first battleship to carry a plane catapult.
In 1929 the Maryland while serving in the Pacific Fleet, was given the honor on carrying President-elect Herbert Hoover and his cabinet on a trip to visit central and South America.
The Maryland was present at Pearl Harbor that tragic morning of December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked. Though reported sunk by Japanese newscasts, the Maryland recieved only light damage and after a trip to Bremerton, Washington, she was ready to fight again in February, 1942.
By the conclusion of the war, the Maryland had been bloodied 3 times by the Japanese, lost many brave men, and earned 7 battlestars.
She was decommissioned in 1946, placed in resevered and scrapped in 1959.
For more information on the exhibit contact Steve Pavlosky @
or phone @
410-285-5239 or 410-285-7792