Virginia-class battleship

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Class overview
*USS Georgia* (BB-15)**
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Maine class
Succeeded by:	Connecticut class
Completed:	5
Retired:	5
Preserved:	0
General characteristics ^[1]
Type:	Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	14,980 tons
Length:	441 ft 3 in (134.49 m)
Beam:	76 ft 3 in (23.24 m)
Draft:	23 ft 9 in (7.24 m)
Propulsion:	Two vertical inverted triple expansion reciprocating steam engines 2 shaft 12 boilers 19,000 hp
Speed:	19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h)
Complement:	812 officers and men
Armament:	4 × 12-inch (305 mm) guns 8 × 8-inch (203 mm) guns 12 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns 24 × 1 pounders 4 × .30-cal machine guns 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 6–11 in (152–279 mm) Barbettes: 6–10 in (152–254 mm) Turrets (main): 6–12 in (152–305 mm) Turrets (secondary): 4–12 in (102–305 mm) Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm)

The Virginia class battleship was designed to be the first truly seagoing U.S. battleships.^[2] 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 U.S. 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). As with the previous experiment in doing so (the Kearsarge class), this severely impaired the utility of the 8" guns so mounted. This was the first American capital ship class to use Krupp armor, years after European contemporaries.^[3]

Ships in class

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; sunk as a target ship, 5 September 1923

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; sold for scrap, November 1923

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; sold for scrap, 1 November 1923

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; sunk as a bombing target, November 1923

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; sold for scrap, 1 November 1923

Sources

Chesneau, Roger; Koleśnik, Eugène M.; Campbell, N.J.M. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
Sondhaus, Lawrence (2001). Naval Warfare 1815–1914. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-21478-5.
Pike, John. "BB-13 Virginia Class". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 2011-10-03.

References

↑ Chesneau, Koleśnik & Campbell 1979, p. 142.
↑ BB-13 Virginia Class.
↑ Sondhaus 2001, p. 126.

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Statistics

v t e Virginia-class battleships

Virginia Nebraska Georgia New Jersey Rhode Island

Preceded by: Maine class Followed by: Connecticut class

List of battleships of the United States Navy

v t e United States naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	South Carolina Delaware Florida Wyoming New York Nevada Pennsylvania New Mexico Tennessee^C Colorado^C South Dakota^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Indiana Iowa^S Kearsarge Illinois Maine Virginia Connecticut

Battlecruisers	Lexington^X

Armored cruisers	New York^S Brooklyn^S Pennsylvania Tennessee

Light cruisers	Chester

Protected cruisers	Chicago^S Baltimore^S San Francisco^S Olympia^S Cincinnati^S Raleigh^S Montgomery^S Marblehead^S Columbia New Orleans Denver St. Louis

Destroyers	Bainbridge Truxtun Smith Paulding Cassin Aylwin O'Brien Tucker Sampson Caldwell Wickes Clemson^C

Submarines	Plunger B C D E F G H K L M-1^S AA-1 N O R

Auxiliaries	Recruit^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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