USS Wisconsin BB-9

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Union Iron Works
San Francisco, California
Hull Number:
Battleship #9
BB-9 (July 17, 1920)
Ordered:
September 19, 1896
Commissioned:
February 4, 1901
Keel Laid:
February 9, 1897
Decommissioned:
May 15, 1920
Launched:
November 26, 1898
Stricken:
July 1, 1921
Fate:
Sold Jan. 26, 1922 and scrapped.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
374'
Engines:
2 Three cylinder vertical inverted triple expansion
Beam:
72' 3"
Boilers:
8 Single ended cylindrical (coal fired)
Draft:
23' 6" / 25' max.
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
11,552 std. / 12,150 full
SHP:
10,000 (forced 11,207)
Speed:
16 knots
Crew:
536
817 wartime
Range:
N/A


Armament (general for class)
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range
4
13"/35 (330mm)
2 twin turrets
12,000 yards @ 15° (6.8 miles)
1,130 lb. shell
14
6"/40 (152mm) Mk VI
Single mounts
18,000 yards @ 30.2° (10.2 miles)
105 lb. shell

16
2.244" (57mm)
Single mounts
8,700 yards @ 45° (4.9 miles)
AA ceiling 10,000'
6.03 lb. HE or AP shell
6
1.46" (37mm)
Single mounts
3,500 yards @ 11.4°
1.058 lb. HE shell
4 (a)
18" (450mm)
torpedo tubes
single mounts
surface
1,500 yards @ 28.5 knots
132 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead
4 (b)
3"/50 (76mm)
Single mounts
14,600 yards @ 43° (8.2 miles)
AA ceiling 30,400'
13 lb. HE shell


Notes:
Christened by Miss Elizabeth Stephenson.


Builder's Data
Page published May 12, 2007