Uss Massachusetts (bb-54)

''South Dakota''-class Battleship , the
sixth United States Navy ship to be named in honor of
The Sixth State . Her keel was laid down
on 4 April 1921 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation .
Her construction was suspended on 8 February 1922
at 11 percent complete, and canceled 17 August 1923
in accordance with the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty .
She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 24 August 1923 , and
her unfinished hull was sold
to the Steel Scrap Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
on 8 November 1923 for scrapping on the slipway.

See USS ''Massachusetts'' for other ships of the same name.

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