Pennsylvania Class Battleship
USS Pennsylvania |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Pennsylvania class |
| Builders: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company New York Navy Yard |
| Operators: | United States Navy |
| Preceded by: | Nevada class |
| Succeeded by: | New Mexico class |
| In commission: | 1916–1946 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Displacement: | 31,400 long tons (31,900 t) (standard) normal 32,567 long tons (33,090 t) full load |
| Length: | 600 ft (182.9 m) (waterline); 608 ft (185.3 m) (overall) |
| Beam: | 97 ft (29.6 m) (waterline) |
| Draft: | 28 ft 10 in (8.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 29,366 shp (21,898 kW) (on sea trials) |
| Propulsion: | 4 shafts 4 sets of Parsons steam turbines 12 Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at cruising speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 55 officers and 860 men |
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The Pennsylvania-class battleships of the United States Navy were an enlargement of the Nevada class; having two additional 14-inch (356 mm) 45-caliber main battery guns, greater length and displacement, four propellers and slightly higher speed. They also had a relatively large secondary battery of 5-inch (127 mm) 51-caliber guns, which was soon reduced when many of the guns' locations proved vulnerable to high seas.
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