American battleship USS Kansas (BB-21) 1904-1924

Viriginia-class

Connecticut-class

American battleship USS Idaho of the Mississippi-class as the Greek Lemnos 1914-1945. 

Thanks to  Andreas Kendristakis

Connecticut-class consisting Connecticut, Louisiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Vermont, preceded by the Virginia-class and succeeded by the Mississippi-class. Ordered on 3 March 1903, laid down at New York Shipbuilding Company on 10 February 1904, launched by Anna Hoch on 12 August 1905, commissioned on 18 April 1907, decommissioned on 16 December 1921, stricken on 24 August 1923 and broken at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1924.

General technical specifications of this class. Displacement 16.000 (design)-17.949 (full load) tons and as dimensions 140 (waterline)-139,09 (overall) x 23,42 x 7,47 metres or 450’-456’4” x 76’10” x 24’6”. Heavy military masts replaced in 1909 by lattice masts. The machinery consisted of 2 shaft triple expansion steam engines and 12 coal fired Babcock&Wilcox boilers supplying 16,500 ihp allowing a speed of 18 knots. Coal bunker capacity 910 (normal)-2.444 (maximum) tons allowing a range of 7.590  nautical miles with a speed of 10 knots. The crew numbered 827-896 men. The armour consisted of a 15,2cm/6”-27,9cm/11” thick belt, with the barbettes main gun turrets, secondary gun turrets and conning tower protected by respectively 15,2cm/6”-25,4cm/10”, 20,3cm/8”-30,5cm/12”, 17,8cm/7” and 22,9cm/9”. The armour consisted of 2x2-30.5cm/12” /45cal Mark 5 guns (fore and aft), 8-20,3cm/8” /45 cal guns, 12-17,8cm/7” /45 cal guns, 20-7,6cm/3”/50 cal guns, 12-3pd guns, 4-1pd guns and 4-53cm/21” submerged torpedo tubes (broadsides), for which 16 torpedoes were carried.