The First Battleship New Jersey
The first USS New Jersey was built in 1906 in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was a 14,948 ton Virginia class battleship. She participated in the "Great White Fleet's cruise. Following this cruise she was "modernized". During World War I she was a training ship. After World War I she brought veterans home from Europe. She was decommissioned in l920 and was sunk off Cape Hatteras as a bombing target in September 1923.
