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Michigan battleship mishap shocks crew at gun exercise
On September 20 the twelve inch gun of No. 2 turret on the battleship Michigan exploded during target practice off Tangier Sound near the Virginia Capes. John Hass Hammond Jr Captain C B Brittain and twenty others narrowly escaped injury as a fragment struck Yeoman Robert W Cooper and derailed the bridge. A board of inquiry ordered by Secretary Daniels opened at League Island to investigate the incident amid extensive ship damage and hospital treatment for Cooper.
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Naval Board Converse
League Intand
Philadelphia
Michigan
John Hass Hammond, Jr
C. B. Brittain
League Island
Board of
Daniels
Robert W. Cooper
Baltimore
Cooper
Murphy
Ft Wa Said
Hudson Maxim