# Talk:USS Alabama (BB-60)

...well, that actually answered my long-standing question as to why, way back when when we visited Alabama, it was marked with #63! - The Bushranger One ping only 04:25, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

The template-produced text "member of the South Dakota-class of fast battleships" has a hyphen that shouldn't be there.  That hyphen would be correct in the usual use of that template for "South Dakota-class battleships" where the class compound is used as a modifier, but not here where it's not.  Is there a variant of the template or a hyphen option to fix this, or can I just write it without the template? Dicklyon (talk) 01:15, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

The template, {{Sclass-}} has multiple options for formatting.  See option 4 at Template:Sclass-#Optional unnamed format control parameter. -Fnlayson (talk) 02:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that.  Dicklyon (talk) 03:20, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

The text says that all of the 20mm anti-aircraft guns were single-mount, but at the moment there are many dual-mount 20mm installations on board. Is there information available about this discrepancy? YSSYguy (talk) 13:46, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
I can answer that. All 20 mm AA guns were removed in the early 50s when the ship was in reserve, when the 20 mm guns were removed from most navy ships because they were no longer deemed sufficient to deal with aircraft. As such, when USS Alabama became a museum, she had none of her original 20 mm mounts. Instead, mounts were obtained from the "Ghost Fleet". They prioritized finding the exact same mounts that would have been on the Alabama during World War II, but they could only obtain what was available on the old ships, and they had to make due with some twin mounts. Thus, today USS Alabama has twin mounts even though she never had any during her service. Excellent eye, by the way. Most people who know about or visit the ship never notice this. 12.185.211.194 (talk) 15:18, 31 August 2022 (UTC)