parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu (10/10/90)
From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu In article <1990Oct5.034136.546@cbnews.att.com>, jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) writes: > battleships. Sorry, I don't have any info on battleships earlier than > BB 26. Perhaps someone else can fill in some of the earlier gaps. > Here is information from the captions of the pictures in the 1991 Naval Institute Engagement Calendar "A Century of US Battleships" which has pictures of every US BB commissioned. It only tells the fate of some of the BBs, but some of the other information is interesting. * know to be start of new class. Number Name Notes ------ --------------- ------------------------------ BB 1 Indiana BB 2 Massachusetts 2 turrets of 2 13" guns each with 4 mile firing range. BB 3 Oregon Was a memorial in Portland until WWII when she was going to be scrapped. Partway through the scrapping process she was used as an ammunition carrier to Guam and then scrapped in the 50's. BB 4 Iowa Sunk as target 22 March 1923 by BB 41 Mississippi. BB 5 Kaersarge Only BB not named for a state. Was named for the ship which sunk the CSA Alabama in 1864. Converted to a craneship in 1920, renamed Craneship Number 1 in 1941 so the name could be used on a carrier. Was use in the construction of the new Alabama ( note irony given the reason for her original name ) and Indiana in WWII. BB 6 Kentucky Commissioned 1900. Secondary turrets were on top of the primaries causing loading problems. * BB 7 Illinois Commissioned 1901. Became a training ship in 1924 and later had the superstructure removed and a wooden frame house put on her to be used as a naval reserve armory and midshipman training school. Was renamed Prairie State to let Illinois be used on a new BB in 1941. BB 8 Alabama Sunk in 1921 in aerial bombing experiments in 1921. BB 9 Wisconsin Decommissioned 1920. * BB 10 Maine Scrapped due to 1922 treaty. BB 11 Missouri BB 12 Ohio Scrapped due to 1922 treaty. * BB 13 Virginia Commissioned 1906. BB 14 Nebraska BB 15 Georgia Only BB built at Bath. Had turret explosion killing 10 and injuring 11. BB 16 New Jersey Sunk 5 Sep 1923 in boming tests. BB 17 Rhode Island Scrapped due to 1922 treaty. * BB 18 Connecticut 16,000 tons, 456 ft. BB 19 Louisiana BB 20 Vermont Scrapped 1923. BB 21 Kansas BB 22 Minnesota * BB 23 Mississippi 13,000 tons, 382 ft in an attempt by congress to save money. Sold to Greece with her sister on the eve of WWI. As Kilkas was sunk by Luftwaffe in 1941. BB 24 Idaho Sister to Mississippi. * BB 25 New Hampshire ___ Gregg Parmentier ____ parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu ___ "There was a voice somewhere, an angry child's voice stringing obscenities together in an endless, meaningless chain; when she realized who it was, she stopped doing it." William Gibson (MLO)