User:Trekphiler/Nevada Class Project
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The Nevada class battleships were the United States Navy's first battleship design equipped with triple gun turrets (the Colorado class would be the last to carry twin turrets, armed with dual-mounted 16" guns), as well as introducing the so-called "all or nothing" armor scheme, in which protection of vital areas was optimized against heavy caliber guns, leaving other parts of the ship essentially unprotected.
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USS Nevada | |
Class overview | |
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Name | Nevada class battleship |
Builders | Fore River Shipbuilding Company (Nevada)[1] and New York Shipbuilding Corporation (Oklahoma)[2] |
Operators | United States Navy |
Preceded by | New York-class battleship |
Succeeded by | Pennsylvania-class battleship |
Completed | 2 |
Active | 0 |
Lost | 1 |
Retired | 1 |
Preserved | 0 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Battleship |
Displacement | Standard: 27,500 tons |
Length | 583 ft (177.7 m) |
Beam | 95 ft 3 in (29 m) |
Draft | 28.5 ft (8.7 m) |
Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) Two propellers Nevada : geared steam turbines 26,500 horsepower (20 MW) Oklahoma : Vertical Triple Expansion reciprocating steam engines 24,800 horsepower (18 MW) |
Speed | 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) |
Range | 5,192 nmi at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Complement | (as built) 864 officers and men (from 1929) 1,398;[3] (from 1945) 2,220;[4] |
Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) Main battery: 10 × 14"/45-caliber guns (2×3, 2×2 superfiring) Secondary battery: 21 × 5-inch (127 mm)/51-caliber guns in single casemate mountings (21×1; ten each beam, one in the stern); soon reduced to 12. In the late 1920s, 8×5-inch/25-caliber anti-aircraft guns (8x1) were added. In 1942, all were removed and replaced by 16×5"/38 caliber DP mounts (8×2), and 32×40mm AA (8×4) and 40×20mm AA (40×1) added;[5] 2×21" (53 cm) torpedo tubes (beam, submerged)[6][7][8] |
Armour | list error: <br /> list (help) Belt:13.5"–8" Bulkheads:13"–8" Barbettes:13" Turrets:18" Decks:5" |
Aircraft carried | list error: <br /> list (help) (as built) 3 floatplanes, 2 catapults[9] (1942) 2 floatplanes, 1 catapult[10] |
Notes | 2042 tons oil fuel |
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