USS Drum, Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile Bay, AL USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy. Laid down on 11 September 1940 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class submarines, but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. Drum…
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Fort Morgan
Fort Morgan, located on Mobile Point, at the end of Fort Morgan Peninsula Built of brick and mortar between 1819 and 1833, Fort Morgan stands guard where the bay meets the Gulf of Mexico. This site originally was home to Fort Bower during the War of 1812. Seized by Alabama Troops and turned over to…