High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Indiana (Battleship No. 1) was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery. She was intended and used for coastal defense, since her decks were not safe from high waves on the open ocean.

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