![]() With a single exception in 1904 each year from 1901 to 1907, she conducted Fleet exercises and gunnery drills in the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies in the wintertime before returning north for repairs and operations off the northeastern coast during the summer and autumn. Alabama's Navy career began in earnest with her arrival in the gulf early in February. Finally, on 27 January, the battleship headed south for winter exercises with the Fleet at the drill grounds in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Fla. She stayed at New York through the New Year and until the latter part of January 1901. ![]() The warship remained at Philadelphia until 13 December when she eot underway for the brief trip to New York. Though assigned to the North Atlantic Station Alabama did not begin operations with that unit until early the following year. Morgan, United States Senator from Georgia and commissioned on 16 October 1900, Capt. 8) was laid down on 1 December 1896 at Philadelphia, Pa., by the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., launched on sponsored by Miss Mary Morgan, daughter of the Honorable John T.
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