Battleship class
New York-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navies
- Royal Navy 2
United States Navy 2 - Built
- 1911–1914
- In commission
- 1914–1946
- Preceded by
- Wyoming-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Nevada-class battleship
- Builders
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 27,000 long tons (27,433 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 28,367 long tons (28,822 t)
- Length
- 174.65 m (573 ft) OA
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,042
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 14 inguns
- 21 × 5 in guns
- 4 × 3 pdr 47 mm saluting guns
- 2 × 1 pdr 37 mm guns
- 4 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Exeter (68) | 68 | 1931 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS York (90) | 90 | 1930 | Scrapped 1941 |
| USS New York (BB-34) | BB-34 | 1914 | Target 1948 |
| USS Texas (BB-35) | BB-35 | Preserved |
Sources
- Facts harvested from New York-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.