U.S.S. West Virginia
BB-48
1941
(Neptun 1303P)
- Class: Colorado - 3 battleships of 1916
- Displacement: 32,600 tons
- Dimensions: 600(wl) 624(oa) x 97.5 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: 1,407
- 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. Shown here in Measure 1 Dark Grey System camouflage as worn by all the Pacific Fleet battleships and aircraft carriers at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. On 7 Dec 1941, West Virginia was moored in the center of Battleship Row, outside Tennessee, aft of Oklahoma and Maryland, and forward of Vestal and Arizona. She took two bomb hits and six torpedoes, but settled on an even keel. Salvage and rebuilding took until mid-1944, when she returned to the western Pacific in time to support the Philippine and later campaigns.
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