USS Idaho BB-42 |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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Builder: |
New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden, New Jersey |
Hull Number: |
Battleship #42 BB-42 (July 17, 1920) |
Ordered: |
November 9, 1914 |
Commissioned: |
March 24, 1919 |
Keel Laid: |
January 20, 1915 |
Decommissioned: |
July 3, 1946 |
Launched: |
June 30, 1917 |
Stricken: |
September 16, 1947 |
Fate: |
Sold Oct. 31, 1947 to Lipsett Inc. New York City and scrapped in Newark, NJ. 1947-48. |
Dimensions, Machinery and Performance |
Length: |
624' |
Engines: |
4 Parsons single reduction geared steam turbines |
Beam: |
97' 5" (106' over blisters) |
Boilers: |
9 Babcock & Wilcox (oil fired) |
Draft: |
34' |
Shafts: |
4 |
Displacement: |
33,400 std. / 39,997 full |
SHP: |
32,000 |
Speed: |
21 knots |
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Crew: |
2,116 |
Range: |
N/A |
Main and secondary Armament |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
12 |
14"/50 (356mm) |
4 triple turrets |
24,000 yards @ 15° (13.6 miles) with 1,400 lb. armor piercing shell |
22 |
5"/51 (127mm) |
single mounts |
18,800 yards @ 25° (10.6 miles) with 50 lb. armor piercing shell |
2 |
21" (533mm) torpedo tubes |
submerged |
up to
15,000 yards @ 27 knots
500 lb. TNT warhead |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Jan. 22, 2007 |