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Dimensions 975.0 (water line)-998’0” (over all) x 103.0 (extreme on waterline)-105’6” (molded on water line) x 32.9 feet. Freeboard maximum at stem 29’6”, at A.P. 29’6” feet and at side 28’6”.
Total normal displacement: 63,500 tons.
Hull 30,150
Hull fittings 3,065
Protection 13,300
Steam engineering 6,250
Reserve feed 1,200
Battery 2,850
Ammunition 2,000
Equipment 775
Outfit and 2/3 stores 1,050
Fuel oil 2/3 full supply 2,850
Margin 10
Length boiler room 24, engine room 120, motor rooms 56, total machinespace 264.
Main side belt armor 19.8 1/2 extreme width 9’0”below water line-thickness 13”-13”-7”.
Barbettes thickness 12.5” (heavy part)-4’ (light part).
Turrets thickness 18’(port)-10-9” (sides)-5” (top)-9”(rear).
Conning tower proper thickness 16”and top 8”.
Conning tower tube thickness 16” (heavy part)-6” (light part).
Uptake protection thickness 10-7-5”.
Protective deck total thickness middle 3”after 4”.
Speed 30 knots with 90,000 shp. Electric drive propulsion. Cruising radius 10 knots/12,000 nautical miles. 24 Boiler rooms.
Armament 4x3-16” 50 cal guns, 21-5” quick firing guns, 3” high powered anti aircraft guns and 4-21” submerged torpedo tubes.
Note
1. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (11 August 1847-3 July 1918), Democratic Party plotician, governor of South Carolina 1890-1894 and senator 1895-1918. See for instance: Construction of battleships. Remarks of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman,... relative to the construction of 60,000-ton battleships; also copy of a Senate resolution instructing the Committee on Naval Affairs to make an investigation of the matter, together with an article entitled "Build the Limit," by Commander W.A. Moffett, United States Navy. Presented by Mr. Tillman. June 20, 1916. It deals with the maximum size of a battleship still able to pass the Panama Canal.
Source
S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Bureau of Ships Spring Styles Book 1 1911-1925. S-584-104.
