USS Indiana (BB-58)
Service
- 30 April 1942 — 11 September 19471,223 days of the war
- Name
- USS Indiana
- Pennant / hull number
- BB-58
- Namesake
- Indiana
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Laid down
- 20 November 1939
- Launched
- 21 November 1941
- Commissioned
- 30 April 1942
- Decommissioned
- 11 September 1947
- Struck
- 1 June 1962
- Fate
- Broken up, 1963 (1963)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 37,970 long tons (38,579 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 44,519 long tons (45,233 t)
- Length
- 207.26 m (680 ft) OA
- Beam
- 32.92 m (108 ft)
- Draught
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Range
- 15,000 nmi (27,780 km)
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th state on 11 December 1816, and derives its name from its original habitation by American Indians.
The second Indiana (BB-58) was laid down on 20 November 1939, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Margaret R. Robbins, the daughter of Governor Henry F. Schricker of Indiana; and commissioned on 30 April 1942, Capt. Aaron S. Merrill in command.
An act of Congress, approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and popularly known as the Vinson-Trammell Act after the two members of Congress who sponsored the measure, Carl Vinson (D., Ga.) and Park Trammell (D., Fla.), authorized the construction of the ship on 27 March 1934. The act established the composition of the Navy at the limits prescribed by the Washington and London Naval Limitation Treaties of 1922 and 1930, respectively. President Roosevelt approved the name Indiana for the battleship on 21 September 1938.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Indiana II (BB-58)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × General Electric steam turbines
- 4 × screw propellers
- Power
- 130000 shp
- 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- Armament
- 9 × 16 in guns
- 20 × 5 in DP guns
- 7 × quad 40 mm AA guns
- 35 × single 20 mm AA guns
- Armour
- Belt: 12.2 in
- Deck: 6 in
- Turrets: 18 in
- Barbettes: 17.3 in
- Conning tower: 16 in
- Aircraft
- 3 × "Kingfisher" floatplanes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Indiana (BB-58) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Indiana II (BB-58) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/indiana-bb-58/80-G-222923.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons