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Sunday, 13 December 2015

American battleship South Carolina (1908) in 1923

Michigan type Launched in 1908, completed in 1909, displacement 16.000 tons, horsepower 16.500 hp, coal-fired reciprocating machinery and armament of 8-12” guns, 38 smaller light and machine guns and 2 submerged torpedoes.(1)

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.

Note
1. To be scrapped under the Washington Treaty. The Washington Treaty or Five-Powers Treaty was a treaty ratified at Washington, USA on 17 August 1923 between the major naval powers USA, United Kingdom, France, japan and Italy to prevent again an arms race by reducing the new building of battleships, battle cruisers and aircraft carriers and limiting the displacement of the others warships to a maximum of 10.000 tons.