United States Navy — Battleship class
New Mexico-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1915–1919
- In commission
- 1917–1956
- Preceded by
- Pennsylvania-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Tennessee-class battleship
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- New York Naval Shipyard
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- 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
- 32,000 long tons (32,514 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 33,000 long tons (33,530 t)
- Length
- 190.2 m (624 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,081
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 12 × 14 in/50 cal guns
- 14 × 5 in/51 cal guns
- 8 × 3 in/50 cal guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Idaho (BB-42) | BB-42 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Mississippi (BB-41) | BB-41 | 1917 | Scrapped 1957 |
| USS New Mexico (BB-40) | BB-40 | 1918 | Scrapped 1948 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from New Mexico-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.