United States Navy — Battleship class
Nevada-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1912–1916
- In commission
- 1916–1946
- Preceded by
- New York-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Pennsylvania-class battleship
- Builders
- Bethlehem, Fore River Yard, MA (1)
- New York Shipbuilding, NJ (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Original configuration
- Displacement, standard
- 27,500 long tons (27,941 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 28,400 long tons (28,856 t)
- Length
- 177.7 m (583 ft) OA
- Speed
- 20.5 knots (38 km/h, 23.6 mph)
- Complement
- 864
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 14 in /45 caliber guns
- 21 × 5 in /51 caliber guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
After 1927–1930 refit
- Displacement, standard
- 30,500 long tons (30,989 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 33,901 long tons (34,445 t)
- Complement
- 1,374
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 14 in /45 guns
- 12 x 5 in /51 guns
- 8 x 5 in /25 guns
- 8 × 0.5 in Browning machine guns
Nevada after 1942 refit
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 14 in /45 caliber guns
- 16 × 5 in /38 dual-purpose guns
- 36 × Bofors 40 mm guns
- 38 × Oerlikon 20 mm autocannon
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Nevada (BB-36) | BB-36 | 1916 | Sunk 1948 |
| USS Oklahoma (BB-37) | BB-37 | 1916 | Sunk 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Nevada-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.