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USS Arkansas (Battleship #33) BB-33 |
Hull Number: |
Battleship #33 (until July 17, 1920) BB-33 |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
Wyoming |
Number In Class: |
2 |
Sister Ships: |
Wyoming BB-32 |
Builder: |
New York Shipbuilding Co. Camden, New Jersey |
Keel Laid Down: |
Jan. 25, 1910 |
Launched: |
Jan. 14, 1911 |
Christened By: |
Miss Nancy Louise Macon |
Commissioned: |
Sept. 17, 1912 |
Decommissioned: |
July 29, 1946 |
Stricken: |
Aug. 15, 1946 |
Disposition: |
July 25, 1946 Sunk as target in Operation Crossroads atomic bomb "Baker" test at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands |
Crew: |
1,860 |
Dimensions |
Length: |
562' (171.2m) |
Beam: |
93' 1" (28.3m) |
Draft: |
32' (9.7m) |
Displacement: |
26,100 33,600 Full |
Armament |
Type |
1912 |
1918 |
1921 |
1926 |
1941 |
1942 |
1944 |
12"/50 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
5"/51 |
21 |
16 |
16 |
16 |
14 |
6 |
6 |
3"/50AA |
- |
2 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
10 |
Torpedo Tubes 21" Submerged |
2 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Service Timeline |
Apr. 30 - Sept. 1914: |
At Vera Cruz, Mexico *Apr. 22, 1914 Landed 330 men at Vera Cruz 2 killed in the fighting 2 men awarded the Medal of Honor *Lt. John Grady *Lt. (jg) Jonas Howard Ingram |
World War 1 |
Patrol and gunnery training on the east coast |
July 28 - Dec. 1, 1918: |
Assigned to Battleship squadron 6 attached to the British Home Fleet |
Nov. 21, 1918: |
Present at Scapa Flow for the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet |
1925 - 1926: |
Modernized at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Converted to oil burning engines After cage mast replaced with tripod mast Twin funnels replaced with a single funnel |
Dec. 7, 1941: |
At anchor at Casco Bay, Maine |
1941 - Apr. 1944: |
Convoy escort duty in the Atlantic (8 trips) |
June 1944 - Jan. 1945: |
Shore bombardment at Normandy, Grandcamp les Bains, Cherbourg, Toulon, Cannes |
Jan. 1945: |
Moved to Pacific and used for shore bombardment at Tinian, Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
Oct. - Dec. 1945: |
Magic Carpet duty (troop transport from Pacific to the USA) |
Combat Victories |
None |
Commanders |
Sept. 17, 1912 |
Roy C. Smith |
Casualties |
April 22, 1914 Louis O. Fried William L. Watson |
Notable Visitors |
December 1912: |
President William H. Taft sailed to Panama |
May 10, 1914: |
Capt. Franz von Papen, German military attache' to the United States and Mexico (at Vera Cruz, Mexico) |
July 2, 1923: |
King Christian X of Denmark (at Copenhagen, Denmark) |
Oct. 17, 1931: |
President Herbert Hoover |
January 1935: |
King Haakon VII of Norway (at Oslo, Norway) |
August 8, 1941: |
Sumner Wells, United States Under Secretary of State and Averell Harriman (at Casco Bay, Maine for the Atlantic Charter Conference) |
Awards |
Received 4 battle stars for service in World War 2 * Invasion of Normandy * * Iwo Jima operation: Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima * * Okinawa operation: Assault and occupation of Okinawa * |
Page revised Jan. 7, 2007 |