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its torpedo defenses, which increased its length to 725 feet (221 m) and displacement to 46,000 long tons (46,738 t). The board rejected this more expensive design and held to most of its requirements; Daniels approved these changes on 29 January 1918. Taylor investigated sloping the armor, which promised to save a lot of weight, but ultimately decided not to do so. On 6 July, the board changed its draft specification to 33 feet (10.1 m) at normal load, which meant that the ships would have to off-load weight to pass through the canal and dropped its requirement for a
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of 32 feet 6 inches (9.9 m) to easily pass through the canal. In an effort to mitigate the impact on the ship's draft by all of these changes and unable to exceed the canal's width of 106 feet (32.3 m), Taylor revised the design by adding length and took the opportunity to improve
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General Board's requirements were not thoroughly spelled out at the beginning of the design process and it requested a main armament of a dozen 16-inch (406 mm) guns and higher speed than the existing 21 knots of the earlier ships to counter trends it saw in fast foreign battleships like the
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for several months before compromising on 20 guns in a mixture of single and twin mounts when the
General Board approved the design on 24 January 1917. American entry into the war in April caused the suspension of all capital ship construction in favor of smaller ships more immediately useful to the
586:. Despite this, higher speed was not a high priority and the board settled for a modest increase of two knots. After a flirtation with a design armed with twelve guns in six twin-gun turrets that came out much larger than desired, successful long-range gunnery trials with the triple turrets used by
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or vice versa. In the meantime the
General Board had decided that upon a plethora of changes of which the most significant were substituting a more powerful, but slower firing, six-inch (150 mm) gun for the five-inch guns, thicker deck armor outside the citadel and increased elevation for the
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failed, and the possibility of operating only some of the generators at low speed with suitably higher loading and greater efficiency. " was efficient, rugged and always reliable. But it was also heavy, intricate, and not easy to maintain and keep tuned up." The machinery also required special
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on the side of the superstructure and the remaining four guns were positioned abreast the forward superstructure. The guns had a maximum range of 21,000 yd (19,000 m) at an elevation of 20 degrees from their 105-pound (48 kg) projectiles at a velocity of 3,000 feet per second
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and Navy to plan for mobilization in July. The
General Board argued that the Navy should be the equal to the strongest navy in the world, that of the British, not just to the most likely enemy, Imperial Germany, and advocated for construction of 10 battleships over five years, together with
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separated by three torpedo bulkheads 0.75 inches (19 mm) thick that extended from the splinter deck to the ship's bottom and between the transverse bulkheads. The outermost compartment was empty, the three middle ones were used as oil tanks, and the innermost one was also empty.
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ventilation measures to dissipate heat and to keep out any salt air. Even with this and elaborate insulation measures, protection from moisture or from flooding due to battle damage or other causes remained problematic and it posed the danger of high voltage to the crew if damaged.
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did nothing to change that as neither man believed that additional expenditures on the Navy were worthwhile. The start of the war began to change that attitude and, in early 1915, the
General Board called for construction of four battleships in
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Turret faces were 18 inches (457 mm) thick, with 9–10-inch (229–254 mm) thick sides and a roof 5 inches thick. The barbettes were protected by 13.5 inches of armor above the main deck and 4.5 inches (114 mm) below that. The
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rejected that recommendation on the basis that it was not prudent to make changes to the existing program before enough had been learned from the experiences of the war. In parallel with this there arose a belief that a victorious
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in single mounts amidships. Firing their 13-pound (5.9 kg) shells at a velocity of 2,700 ft/s (820 m/s), the guns had a maximum range of 14,590 yards (13,340 m) and could fire at a rate of 12–15
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of 1922 both restricted the total battleship tonnage allowed the U.S. Navy, and limited individual ship size to 35,000 long tons (35,562 t), construction was halted in early 1922. The unfinished hulls were
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of 2,650 feet per second (810 m/s) to a range of 45,100 yards (41,200 m) at the turret's maximum elevation of 46 degrees. The Mark 2 ended up not being fitted aboard any ship; when the design of the
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and smaller ships. Congress was debating the appropriation bill while the Battle of
Jutland occurred in at the end of May 1916 and the British victory confirmed the value of the battleship in eyes of the
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of 106 feet, and a draft of 33 feet at normal load. They were intended to displace 43,200 long tons (43,893 t) at that load and 47,000 long tons (47,800 t) at deep load, with a
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s, substituting triple turrets for the twin turrets of the older ships. This increase in the number of main guns was a continuation of Navy practice from the beginning of the
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of 42,000 long tons (42,674 t). Daniels approved the preliminary characteristics on 20 November 1916 although the
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s were authorized in 1917, but work was postponed so that the U.S. Navy could incorporate information gained from the
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and armor were used to modernize older battleships. The class name was not re-used until 1939 when the first of four
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of 3.47 feet (1.1 m) at deep load. Their crew would have consisted of 137 officers, 1,404 enlisted men and 75
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in May exposed US weaknesses to the public eye. They caused Wilson to reconsider his position and he ordered the
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for which 600 long tons (610 t) had been reserved. This allowed Taylor to add an aft armored transverse
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Cruisers, 1905-1970: Historical Development of the Capital Ship
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recommendation of a building program of two battleships per year. The election of
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veterans, and that the Navy was unprepared to deal with such a threat.
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1878:Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921
1875:(1985a). "United States". In Gray, Randal (ed.).
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1898:U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History
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1900:. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
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1764:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
1729:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
1692:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
1657:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
1621:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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170:43,200 long tons (43,893 t) (normal)
1650:Cressman, Robert J. (18 February 2016).
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1578:Evans, Mark L. (14 September 2015).
1291:W. McClelland, quoted in footnote 20
347:: 4.5–13.5 in (114–343 mm)
32:South Dakota-class battleship (1939)
874:A 16-inch/50 gun on display at the
1920:. United States Navy. 1 July 1921.
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1580:"South Dakota (Battleship No. 49)"
670:The design characteristics of the
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173:47,000 long tons (47,800 t) (
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1722:Evans, Mark L. (20 April 2016).
365:: 3.5–6 in (89–152 mm)
353:: 5–18 in (127–457 mm)
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1917:Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels
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1652:"Montana (Battleship No. 51)"
1616:"Indiana I (Battleship No.1)"
1241:With the cancellation of the
464:Background and design history
893:turrets fore and aft of the
196:660 ft (201.2 m) (
189:684 ft (208.5 m) (
1473:Anderson & Baker (1977)
1461:Anderson & Baker (1977)
636:the ability to pass through
267:(43 km/h; 26 mph)
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1896:Friedman, Norman (1985b).
1830:Breyer, Siegfried (1973).
1154:Mare Island Naval Shipyard
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121:$ 21,000,000 (cost limit)
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218:33 ft (10.1 m)
48:Artist's concept of the
18:USS South Dakota (BB-49)
2683:Completed after the war
1853:. Annapolis, Maryland:
1849:Campbell, John (1985).
1096:New York Naval Shipyard
1050:watertight compartments
1030:special treatment steel
523:Events abroad like the
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306:6 in (152 mm)
150:General characteristics
1183:Norfolk Naval Shipyard
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1811:Warship International
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937:six-inch Mark 12 guns
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489:Secretary of the Navy
2677:Single ship of class
2434:Unprotected cruisers
1945:class contract plans
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876:Washington Navy Yard
625:5-inch (127 mm)
1568:, pp. 420–421.
1541:, pp. 145–146.
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1228:Fore River Shipyard
777:electrical polarity
647:sixteen-inch guns.
386:was a group of six
2709:Battleship classes
2338:Protected cruisers
1984:-class battleships
1775:. 18 February 2016
1759:"Massachusetts IV"
1703:. 18 February 2016
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