Photo #: S-511-11
"Battleship Study - BB65 - Scheme 3 - (1940 Studies)"
Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board as part
of the process leading to the Montana class (BB-67--71)
battleship design.
This plan, dated 6 February 1940, is for a ship of 52,500 tons
standard displacement and 64,500 ton trial displacement, with
a main battery of twelve 16"/50 guns, a secondary battery
of twenty 5"/38 guns and a 130,000 horsepower powerplant
for a speed of 28 knots. Ship's dimensions are: waterline length
860'; waterline beam 114'; draft 36'. Scale of the original drawing
is 1/32" = 1'.
Port side 5" gun arrangement is labeled "previous secondary
battery arrangement". Starboard side has a "proposed
secondary battery arrangement."
The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book"
held by the Naval Historical Center.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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