{"id":192,"date":"2019-06-23T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/?p=192"},"modified":"2019-06-23T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:41:14","slug":"uss-massachusetts-history-and-archaeology-of-the-nations-oldest-battleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/uss-massachusetts-history-and-archaeology-of-the-nations-oldest-battleship\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Massachusetts: History and Archaeology of the Nation\u2019s Oldest Battleship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just outside Pensacola Pass lie the remains of our nation\u2019s oldest existing battleship, USS <em>Massachusetts<\/em> (BB2). Launched in 1896 as part of the New Steel Navy, the powerful warship soon was rendered obsolete by naval technological advances. Nevertheless, Massachusetts had an exciting career of combat, training, and target practice, and now is a massive artificial reef. This presentation describes the ship and her long life of service to the nation and to Pensacola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> Presented by:<br> The Staff of the Northwest Region<br> Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN)<br> Submit a Speaker Request Form:<br> <a href=\"http:\/\/fpan.us\/nwrc\/presentations.php\">http:\/\/fpan.us\/nwrc\/presentations.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside Pensacola Pass lie the remains of our nation\u2019s oldest existing battleship, USS Massachusetts (BB2). Launched in 1896 as part of the New Steel Navy, the powerful warship soon was rendered obsolete by naval technological advances. Nevertheless, Massachusetts had an exciting career of combat, training, and target practice, and now is a massive artificial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/uss-massachusetts-history-and-archaeology-of-the-nations-oldest-battleship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USS Massachusetts: History and Archaeology of the Nation\u2019s Oldest Battleship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,13],"tags":[49,19,41],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-history","category-fl-arch","category-ships","tag-fpan-northwest","tag-pensacola","tag-uss-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}