 Although considered obsolete in 1910 , the battleship was recommissioned and used for annual cruises for midshipmen during the summers and otherwise laid up in the reserve fleet until her decommissioning in 1914 . In 1917 she was recommissioned to serve as a training ship for gun crews during World War I. She was decommissioned for the final time in March 1919 under the name Coast Battleship Number 2 so that her name could be reused for USS Massachusetts ( BB @-@ 54 ) . In 1921 she was scuttled in shallow water off the coast of Pensacola , Florida and then used as a target for experimental artillery . The ship was never scrapped and in 1956 it was declared the property of the state of Florida . Since 1993 the wreck has been a Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve and is included in the National Register of Historic Places . It serves as an artificial reef and diving spot . 
