USS Maryland (BB-46)
Service
- as Maryland21 July 1921 — 3 April 19472,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Maryland
- Pennant / hull number
- BB-46
- Namesake
- Maryland
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Ordered
- 5 December 1916
- Laid down
- 24 April 1917
- Launched
- 20 March 1920
- Commissioned
- 21 July 1921
- Decommissioned
- 3 April 1947
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 8 July 1959 (1959)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 32,600 long tons (33,123 t)
- Length
- 190.2 m (624 ft)
- Beam
- 29.57 m (97 ft)
- Draught
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Speed
- 21.2 knots (39.2 km/h, 24.4 mph)
- Complement
- 1,080
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
(Battleship No. 46: dp. 32,600; l. 624'; b. 97'6"; dr. 30'6"; s. 21.17 k.; cpl. 1,080; a. 8 16", 12 5", 4 3", 4 6‑pdr., 2 21" tt.; cl. Colorado )
Maryland (Battleship No. 46) was laid down 24 April 1917 by Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Va.; launched 20 March 1920; sponsored by Mrs. E. Brook Lee, wife of the Comptroller of the State of Maryland; and commissioned 21 July 1921, Capt. C. F. Preston in command.
With a new type seaplane catapult and the first 16‑inch guns mounted on a U.S. ship, Maryland was the pride of the Navy. Following an east coast shakedown she found herself in great demand for special occasions. She appeared at Annapolis for the 1922 Naval Academy graduation and at Boston for the anniversary of Bunker Hill and the Fourth of July. Between 18 August and 25 September she paid her first visit to a foreign port transporting Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes to Rio de Janeiro for Brazil's Centennial Exposition. The next year, after fleet exercises off the Panama Canal Zone. Maryland transited the canal in the latter part of June to join the battle fleet stationed on the west coast.
Continue to the full service history About 1,616 words
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Maryland III (Battleship No. 46)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- As built:
- 8 × 16 in/45 caliber guns
- 12 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
- 4 × 3 in/23 caliber guns
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1945 configuration:
- 8 × 16 in/45 caliber guns
- 8 × twin 5"/38 caliber guns
- 40 or 44 × 40 mm Bofors gun
- 36 or 44 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
- Armour
- Belt: 8 - 13.5 in
- Barbettes: 13 in
- Turret face: 18 in
- Turret sides: 9 - 10 in
- Turret top: 5 in
- Turret rear 9 in
- Conning tower: 11.5 in
- Decks: 3.5 in
- Aircraft
- 4 × floatplanes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Maryland (BB-46) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Maryland III (Battleship No. 46) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy (photo 80-G-463249) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons