US Navy Battleships (Part 2)
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Michigan class Dreadnought Battleship (1910)
Specifications (As originally completed)
Weight: 17,617 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 2x vertical turbine engines
Range: 6,950 nautical miles
Speed: 18.5 knots
Armor:
- Belt: 305mm
- Main Deck: 64mm
- Turrets: 305mm
- Barbettes: 254mm
- Conning Tower: 305mm
Armament:
- 8 x 12 in guns (4x2)
- 22 x 76mm rapid fire guns
- 2 x 533mm underwater torpedo tubes
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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USS Michigan (BB-26) | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia | December 18, 1906 | August 11, 1908 | March 1, 1910 | June 1919 | Sold for scrap, November 1921 |
USS West Virginia (BB-27) | New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey | May 26, 1906 | December 17, 1908 | January 4, 1910 | May 1919 | Sold for scrap, November 1921 |
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Congress class Dreadnought Battleship (1910)
Specifications (As originally completed)
Weight: 22,440 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 2x Curtiss steam engines
Range: 6,560 nautical miles
Speed: 21 knots
Armor:
- Belt: 280mm
- Main Deck: 51mm
- Turrets: 305mm
- Casemates: 127mm
- Barbettes: 254mm
- Conning Tower: 292mm
Armament:
- 10 x 12 in guns (5x2)
- 14 x 127mm guns
- 2 x 533mm underwater torpedo tubes
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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USS Congress (BB-28) | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts | November 11, 1907 | February 6, 1909 | April 4, 1910 | | Sunk by naval mines in the Gulf of Maine, December 21, 1915. |
USS Montana (BB-29) | Union Iron Works, San Francisco | December 16, 1907 | November 10, 1909 | April 11, 1910 | July 1918 | Sold for scrap, January 1922 |
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Bonhomme Richard class Dreadnought Battleship (1910-1911)
Specifications (As originally completed)
Weight: 23,033 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 4x Parsons steam turbines
Range: 5,576 nautical miles
Speed: 20.8 knots
Armor:
- Belt: 280mm
- Main Deck: 38mm
- Turrets: 305mm
- Casemates: 127mm
- Barbettes: 254mm
- Conning Tower: 292mm
Armament:
- 10 x 12 in guns (5x2)
- 16 x 127mm guns
- 2 x 533mm underwater torpedo tubes
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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USS Bonhomme Richard (BB-30) | Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City | March 9, 1908 | May 12, 1909 | September 15, 1910 | July 1930 | Sold for scrap, July 1930 |
USS Hancock (BB-31) | New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey | March 15, 1908 | December 23, 1909 | January 2, 1911 | July 1930 | Sold for scrap, July 1930 |
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Wyoming class Dreadnought Battleship (1912)
Specifications (As originally completed)
Weight: 27,243 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 4x Parsons steam turbines
Range: 5,190 nautical miles
Speed: 20.5 knots
Armor:
- Belt: 280mm
- Main Deck: 38mm
- Turrets: 305mm
- Casemates: 165mm
- Barbettes: 280mm
- Conning Tower: 292mm
Armament:
- 12 x 12 in guns (6x2)
- 21 x 127mm guns
- 2 x 533mm underwater torpedo tubes
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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USS Wyoming (BB-32) | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia | February 9, 1910 | May 25, 1911 | September 25, 1912 | September 1947 | Gunnery Training Ship, July 6, 1931. Sold for scrap, August 1948. |
USS Utah (BB-33) | New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey | January 5, 1910 | January 14, 1911 | September 17, 1912 | October 1934 | Depot ship, November 1934. Sunk as blockship near New York City, September 1941. |
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New York class Dreadnought Battleship (1913)
Specifications (Following 1927 refit)
Weight: 31,924 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 2x vertical turbine engines
Range: 15,400 nautical miles
Speed: 21 knots
Aviation Capacity: 3 Vought UO seaplanes, 1 catapult
Armor:
- Belt: 305mm
- Main Deck: 88mm
- Turrets: 356mm
- Barbettes: 305mm
- Conning Tower: 305mm
Armament:
- 10 x 14 in guns (5x2)
- 16 x 127mm guns
- 8 x 76mm AA guns
- 8 x 12.7mm AA machine-guns
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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USS New York (BB-34) | Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City | September 11, 1911 | October 30, 1912 | April 15, 1913/January 2, 1940 | April 1939 | Sunk by Confederate Bombers at Nassau, August 15, 1941. |
USS Delaware (BB-35) | Union Iron Works, San Francisco | April 17, 1911 | May 18, 1912 | March 12, 1913/July 9, 1941 | December 1938/April 12, 1946 | Sunk as a target near the Sandwich Islands, August 8, 1948 |
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Intrepid class Dreadnought Battleship (1914-1915)
Specifications (As originally completed)
Weight: 31,650 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 4x Parsons steam turbines
Range: 11,000 nautical miles
Speed: 22.5 knots
Armor:
- Belt: 305mm
- Main Deck: 51mm
- Turrets: 305mm
- Casemates: 152mm
- Barbettes: 305mm
- Conning Tower: 305mm
Armament:
- 12 x 12 in guns (6x2)
- 12 x 152mm guns
- 16 x 102mm guns
- 2 x 533mm underwater torpedo tubes
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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USS Intrepid (BBF-1)
- ex Rivadavia | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts | May 25, 1910 | August 26, 1911 | November 12, 1914 | May 1919 | Sold to Brazil as Rio De Janeiro, May 1919 |
USS Ranger (BBF-2)
- ex Moreno | New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey | August 9, 1910 | September 23, 1911 | January 4, 1915 | May 1919 | Sold to Brazil as Brasil, May 1919 |