Photo #: S-584-097
Battleship 1917 ... March 20, 1916
A preliminary design for a battleship to be funded in Fiscal
Year 1917, sent on 28 March 1916 to the Navy Department as one
of six alternatives. This design followed the Tennessee
(Battleship # 43) in layout and speed, differing in replacing
triple 14-inch gun turrets with twin 16-inch turrets while also
adding a fifth twin 16-inch gun turret amidships. This design
avoided the use of potentially risky triple 16-inch gun turrets
but expanded ship size and complicated the design by placing
magazines amidships between the machinery spaces. As such, it
was one of the least desirable schemes and was passed over.
This plan provided ten 16-inch guns, electric drive machinery,
and a speed of 21 knots in a ship 656 feet long on the waterline,
97 feet 6 inches in beam, and with a normal displacement of 36,900
tons.
Note: The original document was a blueprint (white on
black).
The original plan is in the 1911-1925 "Spring Styles Book".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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