United States Navy — Battleship class
Pennsylvania-class battleship
Pennsylvania class
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
- Nevada-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- New Mexico-class battleship
- Builders
- Newport News, VA (1)
- New York Navy Yard, NY (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
- 29,158 long tons (29,626 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 31,917 long tons (32,429 t)
- Length
- 185.32 m (608 ft) OA
- Speed
- 21.4 knots (39.6 km/h, 24.6 mph)
- Complement
- 915
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 12 × 14 in/45 cal. guns (4×3)
- 22 × 5 in/51 cal. guns
- 4 × 3 in/50 cal. AA guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Arizona | BB-39 | 1916 | Sunk 1941 |
| USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) | BB-38 | 1916 | Scuttled 1948 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Pennsylvania-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.