Calling all South Dakota-class (BB-57) fans!

[FFG-7]

would this be of any use tho not Alabama?
BB-58 USS Indiana Booklet of General Plans (1943) https://archive.org/details/bb58bogp1943

[Jon C Ryckert]

FFG-7,

Yes sir, those are very helpful as it appears Indiana and Alabama were very close. Would it be that maybe they were built in the same yard? Thank you very much.

[MartinJQuinn]

FFG-7,

Yes sir, those are very helpful as it appears Indiana and Alabama were very close. Would it be that maybe they were built in the same yard? Thank you very much.

Indiana was built at Newport News. Alabama was built down the river at Norfolk Navy Yard

[BB62vet]

Jon,

Well, it seems you may have missed this photo on NavSource showing the vents under construction. Here is a cropped version -

Yes, it would appear that these vents/covers are quite similar to the ones on BB-58. This & the drawing details should provide enough info to make your own parts....

As to Martin's comment re. the two ships built at different yards - this again seems to show that these parts were not common, but items that the individual yards created or engineered themselves due to available materials, etc. Class plans were quite often locally refined/modified as the need arose (I would presume )

Hope this helps!

[Jon C Ryckert]

Sorry for being late in saying thank you for your help BB62vet.

[BB62vet]

Jon,

No problem! I hope that info provided what you were looking for.

Hank