Considerably larger and more powerful than the preceding Colorado class, the South Dakota class was designed to achieve 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph), they represented an attempt to …

Powerplant: 60,000 horsepower steam turbines with electric drive, producing a 23 knot maximum speed. Armament (Main Battery): Twelve 16"/50 guns in four triple turrets.

There is probably a 50/60 % chance that the Massachusetts (BB-54) appears here in some form, being laid at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass. Fore River Plant on 7 July 1921. …

2017年5月13日 · Authorized on March 4, 1917, the South Dakota -class represented the final set of battleships called for under the Naval Act of 1916. Comprising six vessels, the design in …

Laid down at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts on 4 April 1921, suspended on 8 February 1922, further building cancelled when completed for 11,0% on 17 August 1923, …

These were classic U.S. Navy battleships, well protected against gunfire and torpedoes, heavily armed, but relatively slow, intended to prevail in a big-gun slugging match with an enemy …

Look at other dictionaries: USS Massachusetts (BB-59) — USS Massachusetts (BB 59), known as Big Mamie to her crewmembers during World War II, was a battleship of the second South …

English: The USS Massachusetts (BB-54) was a proposed United States battleship of the South Dakota class. Construction began on 4 April 1921, but due to the Washington Naval Treaty, it …

USS Massachusetts (BB-54) was a South Dakota-class battleship, the sixth United States Navy ship to be named in honor of the sixth state. Her keel was laid down on April 4, 1921 by the …

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