USS Alabama, Military museum ship in Mobile, United States.
USS Alabama is 680 feet (210 m) long overall, with a beam of 108 ft 2 in and a draft of 35 ft 1 in. Nine 16-inch guns sit in three triple turrets on the centerline, two superfiring forward and one aft, with twenty 5-inch guns in twin mounts amidships and a wartime battery of 40 mm Bofors and 20 mm Oerlikon guns. The grey hull carries the white number 60 on the port bow.
Alabama entered service in 1942 and was briefly sent to strengthen the British Home Fleet, escorting convoys to the Soviet Union. Transferred to the Pacific in 1943, she screened fast carriers and bombarded Japanese positions through the Gilbert, Marshall, Mariana, Palau and Philippines campaigns, then Okinawa and the July–August 1945 strikes on the Japanese mainland. Decommissioned in 1947, she lay in the Pacific Reserve Fleet until stricken in 1962; a fundraising campaign saved her, and she became a museum ship in Mobile Bay.
The battleship serves as a floating museum for naval forces and preserves the memory of crew members who served aboard during the war, with personal items and equipment from that era.
The battleship sits in the park off Interstate 10 Exit 27, with on-site parking and level access to main decks, though some lower areas require steep ladders.
Throughout its entire service, the crew suffered no combat casualties, earning it the nickname Lucky A, a rare distinction for a ship that conducted numerous Pacific combat operations.
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