United States Navy — Battleship class
Iowa-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 6 Planned
- 4 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 4 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1940–1944
- In commission
- 1943–1958
- Preceded by
- South Dakota-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Montana-class battleship (canceled)
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- New York Naval Shipyard
- (BB-61 & BB-63)
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
- (BB-62, BB-64, & BB-65)
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard
- (BB-66)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 48,110 long tons (48,882 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 57,540 long tons (58,463 t)
- Length
- 270.36 m (887 ft) OA
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 2,700
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
- Armament
- World War II, Korea:
- 9 × 16 in/50 cal guns
- 20 × 5 in/38 cal guns
- 80 × 40 mm AA guns
- 49 × 20 mm AA guns
- Cold War, Gulf War:
- 9 × 16 in/50 cal guns (3 Mounts x3)
- 12 × 5 in/38 cal guns (6 Mounts x2)
- 32 × BGM-109 Tomahawk launchers (8 Launchers x4)
- 16 × RGM-84 Harpoon launchers (4 Mounts x4)
- 4 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Iowa (BB-61) | BB-61 | 1943 | Preserved |
| USS Missouri (BB-63) | BB-63 | 1944 | Preserved |
| USS New Jersey (BB-62) | BB-62 | 1943 | Preserved |
| USS Wisconsin (BB-64) | BB-64 | 1944 | Preserved |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Iowa-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.