U.S.S. Arkansas
BB-33
1944
(Neptun 1309)
- Class: Wyoming - 2 battleships of 1909
- Displacement: 27,900 tons
- Dimensions: 555(wl) 562(oa) x 106 x 26 ft.
- Machinery: 4-shaft turbines, S.H.P. 30,000 = 21 knots
- Armor: belt 12 in., turrets 14 in.
- Armament: 12-12"/50 (6x2), 6-5"/51 (6x1), 8-3"/50 (8x1), 32-40mm (8x4) A.A. guns
- Complement: 1,650
- Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden NJ
- Keel Laid: 25 Jan 1910
- Launched: 14 Jan 1911
- Commissioned: 17 Sep 1912
- Deommissioned: 29 Jul 1946
- Actions: Atlantic 1941, Normandy, S. France, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Oldest active battleship and only one armed with 12" main battery during World War II. Postwar served as A-bomb target at Bikini, sunk after Test Baker 26 Jul 1946. Sister Wyoming (BB-32) was reduced to gunnery training ship under terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
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