Launching. Source Library of Congress, Original link
Drawing S-584-037 for the battleship BB-40 (1) of which the building was planned in the Fiscal Year 2015. Dimensions 625 (waterline) x 95.6 (outside plating)-30.0 (mean) metres and a displacement of 34.300 tons. Block coefficient 0.670 and longitudinal coefficient 0.684. Displacement 34.300 tons : complete hull 14.477 ton, hull fittings 1.490 ton, protection 9.382 ton, steam engineering 2.562 ton, reserve feed 2/3 supply 223 ton, battery 1.602 ton, ammunition& 2/3 ordnance stores 1.489 ton, equipment&2/3 equipment stores and outfit&2/3 stores 1.106 tons, oil fuel/supply 1.594 ton capacity and margin 375 ton. The armament consisted of 4x2-16” breech loading guns, 2-6” guns and 8-21” torpedo tubes. The armour consisted of a belt with an extreme width of 17.4 5/8 feet, a depth below the waterline of 8.6 feet and a thickness of 8-16”/ The gun turrets, barbettes, fire control and conning tower were protected by respectively 5” (roof)-9” (rear)-9/10” (sides)-18” (port), 3” (light)-15.5 (heavy part), 16” and 6” (tube light)-16” (proper and tube heavy). The uptake protected was 15”-12”-8” thick. The protective deck totally 140# and the splinter deck 60# and 80#. Percentage waterline protected 0.828. The machinery consisted of turbines supplying 38.000 shp allowing a speed pf 21 knots and with a speed of 10 knits a range of 8.000 nautical miles.
Note
1.The New Mexico (BB-40) was laid down at the New York Navy Yard on 14 October 1915, launched on 13 April 1917 and commissioned on 20 May 1918.
Source the so-called Spring Styles Book 1 (March 1911-September 1925). Naval History and Heritage Command. Lot S-584. Preliminary designs prepared by mostly civilians working at the Bureau of Construction and Repair (succeeded by the Bureau of Ships nowadays the Naval Sea Systems Command) under supervision of naval architects of the Navy Construction Corps. A major part of the drawings is presented to the General Board which adviced the Secretary of the Navy.
