United States Navy — Battleship class
Colorado-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 3 Completed
- 1 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1917–1923
- In commission
- 1921–1947
- Preceded by
- Tennessee-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- South Dakota class (1920) (planned)
- Builders
- New York Shipbuilding Corp. (2)
- Newport News Shipbuilding (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 32,600 long tons (33,123 t)
- Length
- 190.2 m (624 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,080
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 16 in/45 caliber Mark 1 guns (4 × 2)
- 12 or 14 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Colorado (BB-45) | BB-45 | 1923 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Maryland (BB-46) | BB-46 | 1921 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS West Virginia (BB-48) | BB-48 | 1923 | Scrapped 1959 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Colorado-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.