United States Navy — Battleship class
Tennessee-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1916–1921
- In commission
- 1920–1947
- Preceded by
- New Mexico-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Colorado-class battleship
- Builders
- New York Naval Shipyard
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 32,300 long tons (32,818 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 33,190 long tons (33,723 t)
- Length
- 190.2 m (624 ft) OA
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,083
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 12 × 14 in guns
- 14 × 5 in guns
- 4 × 3 in guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS California (BB-44) | BB-44 | 1921 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Tennessee (BB-43) | BB-43 | 1920 | Scrapped 1959 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Tennessee-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.