United States Navy — Battleship class
Wyoming-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1910–1912
- In commission
- 1912–1947
- Preceded by
- Florida-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- New York-class battleship
- Builders
- William Cramp & Sons
- New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 26,000 long tons (26,417 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 27,243 long tons (27,680 t)
- Length
- 171.3 m (562 ft) OA
- Speed
- 20.5 knots (38 km/h, 23.6 mph)
- Complement
- 1,063
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
- Armament
- 12 × 12 in/50 caliber Mark 7 guns
- 21 × 5 in/51 cal guns
- 4 × 3-pounder 47 mm/40 cal saluting guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes (submerged)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Arkansas (BB-33) | BB-33 | 1912 | Sunk 1946 |
| USS Wyoming (BB-32) | BB-32 | 1912 | Scrapped 1947 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Wyoming-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.