Virginia class battleship

Virginia-class battleship
Class Overview
Class type:	Battleship
Class name	The Commonwealth of Virginia
Preceded by:	Maine class
Succeeded by:	Connecticut class
Ships of the line:	Virginia (BB-13), Nebraska (BB-14), Georgia (BB-15), New Jersey (BB-16), Rhode Island (BB-17)
General Characteristics (USS Virginia)
Displacement:	Standard:14,980 Mean War Service: 16,696 tons
Length:	441 ft 3 in (134.5 m)
Beam:	76 ft 3 in (23.4 m)
Draft:	23 ft 8 in (7.3m)
Speed:	19 knots
Complement:	812 officers and men
Max. cruising radius
Power:	12 boilers, 19,000 hp
Drive:	Reciprocating engines, 1 shaft
Fuel:
Armour	Belt: 8-11 in Bulkheads: Barbettes: 7.5-10 in Turrets: 6-12 in Decks: 1.5-3.0 in

The Virginia class battleship was designed to be the first truly seagoing US 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 US 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). Like the previous experiment in doing so (the Kearsarge class), this had the effect of rendering the 8" guns so mounted useless.

Description

Displacement: 14,980 tons full load
Length: 441 feet
Beam: 76 feet
Draft: 24 feet
Propulsion:
- Engines: Reciprocating engines, 12 boilers
- Shafts: 1
- Power: 19,000 hp
Complement: 812
Armor:
- Belt: 8 to 11 inches
- Turret: 6 to 12 inches
- Tower: 2 to 9 inches
- Deck: 1.5 to 3 inches
Armament:
- Main guns: 4 x 12 inch / 40 caliber guns in two mountings
- Secondary guns: 8 x 8 inch / 45 caliber guns and 12 x 6 inch / 50 caliber guns
- Light guns: 12 x 3 inch / 50 caliber guns and 12 x 3 pounder guns
- Machineguns: 4 x .30-caliber machineguns
- Torpedoes: 4 x 21 inch torpedo tubes
Performance:
- Speed: 19 knots
- Range: