Virginia-class battleship
USS Virginia (BB-13)
Class overview
Operators:
Preceded by:
Maine class Succeeded by:
Connecticut class Completed:
5 Retired:
5 Preserved:
0
General characteristics Type:
Pre-dreadnought battleship Displacement:
14,980 tons Length:
441 ft 3 in (134.49 m) Beam:
76 ft 3 in (23.24 m) Draft:
23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) Propulsion:
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Two vertical inverted triple expansion reciprocating steam engines
2 shaft
12 boilers
19,000 hp Speed:
19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h) Complement:
812 officers and men Armament:
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4 × 12-inch (305 mm) guns
8 × 8-inch (203 mm) guns
12 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns
24 × 1 pounders
4 × .30-cal machine guns
4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes Armor:
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The Virginia class battleshipU.S. battleships . Five ships were commissioned between 1906 and 1907. The ships participated in the round-the-world cruise of the Great White Fleet . For the second and last time, the U.S. Navy experimented with mounting the 8" intermediate battery atop the 12" primary guns (half of the intermediate battery this time, the other half were in conventional turrets). As with the previous experiment in doing so (the Kearsarge classKrupp armor , years after European contemporaries.
Ships in class [ ] Designation: BB-13
Laid down: 21 May 1902
Launched: 6 April 1904
Commissioned: 7 May 1906
Operations:
Victories: None
Fate: Decommissioned 13 August 1920; sunk as a target ship, 5 September 1923 Designation: BB-14
Laid down: 4 July 1902
Launched: 7 October 1904
Commissioned: 1 July 1907
Operations:
Victories: None
Fate: Decommissioned 2 July 1920; sold for scrap, November 1923 Designation: BB-15
Laid down: 31 August 1901
Launched: 11 October 1904
Commissioned: 24 September 1906
Operations:
Victories: None
Fate: Decommissioned 15 July 1920; sold for scrap, 1 November 1923 Designation: BB-16
Laid down: 2 April 1902
Launched: 10 November 1904
Commissioned: 11 May 1906
Operations:
Victories: None
Fate: Decommissioned 6 August 1920; sunk as a bombing target, November 1923 Designation: BB-17
Laid down: 1 May 1902
Launched: 17 May 1904
Commissioned: 19 February 1906
Operations:
Victories: None
Fate: Decommissioned 30 June 1920; sold for scrap, 1 November 1923 See also [ ] Sources [ ] References [ ] External links [ ]
Virginia -class battleships
United States Navy