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Saturday 12 December 2015

American battleship Mississippi (1917) in 1923


New Mexico type. Launched in 1917, completed in 1917, displacement 32.000 tons, horsepower 32.000, oil-fired turbine direct drive machinery and armament of 12-14” guns, 12-5” guns, 12 smaller guns and 2 submerged torpedo tubes.

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.