U.S.S. West Virginia
BB-48
1941
(Neptun 1303c)
- Class: Colorado - 3 battleships of 1916
- Displacement: 37,800 tons
- Dimensions: 600(wl) 624(oa) x 114 x 30 ft.
- Machinery: 4-shaft turbo-electric drive, S.H.P. 31,000 = 21 knots
- Armor: belt 16 in., turrets 18 in.
- Armament: 8-16"/45 (4x2), 10-5"/51 (10x1), 8-5"/25 (8x1) A.A. guns
- Complement: 2,100
- Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA
- Keel Laid: 12 Apr 1920
- Launched: 19 Nov 1921
- Commissioned: 1 Dec 1923
- Sunk: 7 Dec 1941
- Rebuilt: Puget Sound Naval Yard
- Recommissioned: Sep 1944
- Decommissioned: 9 Jan 1947
- Scrapped: Jan 1961
- Actions: Pearl Harbor, Leyte, Surigao Strait, Lingayen, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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