Indiana class battleship
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| Indiana-class battleship | |
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| Class Overview | |
| Class type: | Battleship |
| Class name: | The State of Indiana |
| Preceded by: | USS Maine and USS Texas |
| Succeeded by: | Kearsarge class |
| Ships of the line: | Indiana (BB-1), Massachusetts (BB-2) Oregon (BB-3) |
| General characteristics (USS Indiana) | |
| Displacement: | Standard: 10,288 tons; Mean War Service: |
| Length: | 350 ft 9 in |
| Beam: | 69 ft 3 in |
| Draft: | 24 ft |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 473 officers and men |
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| Armour | Belt: Bulkheads: Barbettes: Turrets: Decks: |
The three Indiana-class battleships were the first modern battleships to be built by the United States Navy. All launched in 1893, they were designed for coastal defense, being too low in the water to deal well with the waves of the open ocean. However, despite their low freeboard, they gave good service in the Spanish-American War and for over a decade afterward, until dreadnought battleships began to come into the fleet in numbers.
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[edit] Description
- Displacement: 10,288 tons
- Length: 350 ft 11 in
- Beam: 69 ft 4 in
- Draft: 24 ft
- Propulsion:
- Engines: Two vertical inverted triple expansion engines
- Shafts: 2
- Power: 9,000 shp
- Complement: 473
- Armor:
- Belt: 18 inches (460 mm)
- Turret: 15 inches (380 mm)
- Tower: 10 inches (250 mm)
- Deck: 3 inches (76 mm)
- Armament:
- Main guns: 4 × 13-inch (330 mm) guns
- Secondary guns: 8 × 8-inch (203 mm) guns and 4 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns
- Light guns: 20 × 6 pounder guns and 6 × 1 pounder guns
[edit] Ships in class
[edit] USS Indiana
- Designation: BB-1 (later redesignated Coastal Battleship No. 1)
- Laid down: 7 May 1891
- Launched: 28 February 1893
- Commissioned: 20 November 1895
- Operations: Bombardment of San Juan, Battle of Santiago de Cuba, World War I training missions
- Victories: Spanish destroyers Furor and Pluton
- Fate: Decommissioned 31 May 1919 for use as a gunnery target
[edit] USS Massachusetts
- Designation: BB-2 (later redesignated Coastal Battleship No. 2)
- Laid down: 25 June 1891
- Launched: 10 June 1893
- Commissioned: 10 June 1896
- Operations: Bombardment of San Juan, Battle of Santiago de Cuba, World War I training missions
- Victories: Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes
- Fate: Decommissioned 31 March 1919 for use as a gunnery target
[edit] USS Oregon
- Designation: BB-3
- Laid down: 19 November 1891
- Launched: 26 October 1893
- Commissioned: 16 July 1896
- Operations: 14,000 cruise during the Spanish-American War,
Philippine-American War, Asiatic Fleet
- Victories: Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes
- Fate: Decommissioned 17 July 1920, initially for preservation but sold for scrap 15 March 1956
[edit] External links
- http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/battleships/massachusetts/bb2-mass.html - U.S. Navy photos of BB-2
- http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/02.htm - Navsource.org photos of BB-2
- http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/flshipwrecks/mas.htm - U.S. National Park Service photos of BB-2 wreckage off Fort Pickens, Florida
[edit] See also
- List of battleships of the United States Navy
- List of battleships
- List of ship launches in 1893
- List of ship commissionings in 1895
- List of ship commissionings in 1896
- List of ship decommissionings in 1919
- List of ship decommissionings in 1920
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