Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/USS Indiana (BB-1)

USS Indiana (BB-1)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 28, 2023 by Gog the Mild (talk) 10:58, 7 January 2023 (UTC)



USS Indiana was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. Authorized in 1890, she launched on 28 February 1893 and commissioned on 20 November 1895. The ship pioneered the use of an intermediate battery. Indiana served in the Spanish–American War as part of the North Atlantic Squadron and took part in the blockade of Santiago de Cuba and the battle of Santiago de Cuba. After the war she became obsolete—despite several modernizations—and spent most of her time in commission as a training ship or in the reserve fleet, with her last commission during World War I as a training ship for gun crews. She was decommissioned for the third and final time in January 1919 and was shortly after reclassified Coast Battleship Number 1 so that the name Indiana could be reused. She was sunk in shallow water as a target in aerial bombing tests in 1920 and her hull was sold for scrap in 1924.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Schichau-class torpedo boat, part of WP:SHIPS, was TFA on Jan 21, 2022.
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 * Promoted: June 30, 2010
 * Reasons for nomination: 130th anniversary of launch
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 16:30, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support This has also been featured five times on the "On this day" section of the Main Page (in 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018 & 2019), which means that this article would be very apt to be featured on February 28. Vida0007 (talk) 19:24, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Balon Greyjoy (talk) 13:33, 18 December 2022 (UTC)