U.S.S. Kentucky
BB-6
1900
(Navis 315)
- Class: Kearsarge - 2 battleships of 1895
- Displacement: 11,540 tons
- Dimensions: 368' x 72' x 24'
- Machinery: twin screw, vertical triple-expansion, I.H.P. 10,000 = 18 knots
- Armor: Main belt 16". turrets 17", secondary turrets 6-8", C.T. 10 in.
- Armament: 4-13"/35 (2x2), 4-8"/35 (2x2), 14-5"/40, 20-6 pdr., 8-1 pdr.; 4-18 in. T.T.
- Complement: 38+548
- Builder: Newport News S.B. & D.D. Co., Newport News, Virginia
- Laid down: 30 Jun 1896
- Launched: 24 Mar 1898
- Commissioned: 15 May 1900
- Notes: New design with superposed turrets with 8in guns directly on top of 13in turrets. Modifications in 1909 included replacement of military masts by cagemasts; alteration of turrets; change in secondary armament to 18-5in and 4-6pdr guns; removal of T.T. Secondary armament reduced in 1918 to 8-5in and 2-3in A.A. guns.
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