Virginia class battleship
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| Virginia-class battleship | |
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| Image:Uss virginia bb-13.jpg | |
| Class Overview | |
| Class type: | Battleship |
| Class name | The Commonwealth of Virginia |
| Preceded by: | Maine class |
| Succeeded by: | Connecticut class |
| Ships of the line: | Virginia (BB-13), Nebraska (BB-14), Georgia (BB-15), New Jersey (BB-16), Rhode Island (BB-17) |
| General Characteristics (USS Virginia) | |
| Displacement: | Standard:14,980 Mean War Service: 16,696 tons |
| Length: | 441 ft 3 in (134.5 m) |
| Beam: | 76 ft 3 in (23.4 m) |
| Draft: | 23 ft 8 in (7.3m) |
| Speed: | 19 knots |
| Complement: | 812 officers and men |
| Max. cruising radius | |
| Power: | 12 boilers, 19,000 hp |
| Drive: | Reciprocating engines, 1 shaft |
| Fuel: | |
| Armour | Belt: 8-11 in Bulkheads: Barbettes: 7.5-10 in Turrets: 6-12 in Decks: 1.5-3.0 in |
The Virginia class battleship was designed to be the first truly seagoing US battleships. Five ships were commissioned between 1906 and 1907. The ships participated in the round-the-world cruise of the Great White Fleet. For the second and last time, the US Navy experimented with mounting the 8" intermediate battery atop the 12" primary guns (half of the intermediate battery this time, the other half were in conventional turrets). Like the previous experiment in doing so (the Kearsarge class), this had the effect of rendering the 8" guns so mounted useless.
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Description
- Displacement: 14,980 tons full load
- Length: 441 feet
- Beam: 76 feet
- Draft: 24 feet
- Propulsion:
- Engines: Reciprocating engines, 12 boilers
- Shafts: 1
- Power: 19,000 hp
- Complement: 812
- Armor:
- Belt: 8 to 11 inches
- Turret: 6 to 12 inches
- Tower: 2 to 9 inches
- Deck: 1.5 to 3 inches
- Armament:
- Main guns: 4 x 12 inch / 40 caliber guns in two mountings
- Secondary guns: 8 x 8 inch / 45 caliber guns and 12 x 6 inch / 50 caliber guns
- Light guns: 12 x 3 inch / 50 caliber guns and 12 x 3 pounder guns
- Machineguns: 4 x .30-caliber machineguns
- Torpedoes: 4 x 21 inch torpedo tubes
- Performance:
- Speed: 19 knots
- Range:
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Ships in class
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USS Virginia
- Designation: BB-13
- Laid down: 21 May 1902
- Launched: 6 April 1904
- Commissioned: 7 May 1906
- Operations:
- Victories: None
- Fate: Decommissioned 13 August 1920 and sunk as a target ship 5 September 1923
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USS Nebraska
- Designation: BB-14
- Laid down: 4 July 1902
- Launched: 7 October 1904
- Commissioned: 1 July 1907
- Operations:
- Victories: None
- Fate: Decommissioned 2 July 1920 and sold for scrap November 1923
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USS Georgia
- Designation: BB-15
- Laid down: 31 August 1901
- Launched: 11 October 1904
- Commissioned: 24 September 1906
- Operations:
- Victories: None
- Fate: Decommissioned 15 July 1920 and sold for scrap 1 November 1923
Image:Uss new jersey bb-16.jpg
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USS New Jersey
- Designation: BB-16
- Laid down: 2 April 1902
- Launched: 10 November 1904
- Commissioned: 11 May 1906
- Operations:
- Victories: None
- Fate: Decommissioned 6 August 1920 and sunk as a bombing target November 1923
Image:Uss rhode island bb-17.jpg
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USS Rhode Island
- Designation: BB-17
- Laid down: 1 May 1902
- Launched: 17 May 1904
- Commissioned: 19 February 1906
- Operations:
- Victories: None
- Fate: Decommissioned 30 June 1920 and sold for scrap 1 November 1923
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See also
- List of battleships of the United States Navy
- List of ship launches in 1904
- Lists of ship commissionings in: 1906 and 1907
- 1920
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Sources
| Virginia-class battleship |
| Virginia | Nebraska | Georgia | New Jersey | Rhode Island |
| List of battleships of the United States Navy |