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Sunday, 1 December 2019

American battleship Delaware (1909) in 1923

Source Fleets of the world 1915. Compiled from official sources and classified according to types

Delaware-class

Delaware type. Launched in, completed in 1909, displacement 20.000 tons, horsepower 25.000 hp, coal-oil-fired reciprocating machinery and armament of 10-12” guns, 14-5” guns, 12 smaller light and machineguns and 2 submerged torpedo tubes. To be scrapped with the North Dakota when replaced by the Colorado and West Virginia.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.