U.S.S. New York
BB-34
1944
(Neptun 1308a)
- Class: New York - 2 battleships of 1910
- Displacement: 27,000 tons
- Dimensions: 565(wl) 573(oa) x 106 x 26 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft reciprocating, S.H.P. 28,100 = 21 knots
- Armor: belt 12 in., turrets 14 in.
- Armament: 10-14"/45 (5x2), 6-5"/51 (6x1), 10-3"/50 (10x1), 40-40mm (10x4) A.A. guns
- Complement: 1,530
- Builder: New York Navy Yard
- Keel Laid: 11 Sep 1911
- Launched: 30 Oct 1912
- Commissioned: 15 Apr 1914
- Decommissioned: 29 Aug 1946
- Actions: Atlantic 1941, N. Africa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Bikini target in 1946. Towed to Kwajalein and decommissioned there, then towed to Pearl Harbor, but found too radioactive to remove fittings; sunk as target 8 Jul 1948.
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