U.S.S. Colorado
BB-45
1945
(Neptun 1303a)
- Class: Colorado - 3 battleships of 1916
- Displacement: 32,500 tons
- Dimensions: 600(wl) 624(oa) x 108 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), 8-5"/51 (8x1), 8-5"/25 (8x1), 36-40mm (8x4,2x2) A.A. guns
- Complement: 2,100
- Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden NJ
- Keel Laid: 29 May 1919
- Launched: 22 Mar 1921
- Commissioned: 30 Aug 1923
- Decommissioned: 7 Jan 1947
- Stricken: 23 Jul 1959
- Notes: Appearance as in 1945. Colorado originally completed in 1923; as one of the newest battleships in the fleet, she had only minor antiaircraft upgrades before Pearl Harbor. She was at Bremerton during that attack, the only one of nine Pacific fleet battleships absent. As the war progressed, Colorado received additional light AA, but no major modifications like here sisters, Maryland, and West Virginia.
- Actions: Gilbert Is., Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, Leyte, Lingayen, Okinawa
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