Delaware-class
Florida-class
Wyoming-class
Of the Florida-class dreadnoughts consisting of the Florida and Utah, preceded by the Delaware-class and succeeded by the Wyoming-class. Building ordered on 13 May 1908, laid down at the New York Naval Shipyard on 8 March 1909, launched on 12 May 1920, sponsored by E.D. Fleming, commissioned on 15 September 1911, decommissioned in June 1924, modernized at the Boston Navy Yard (including adding torpedo bulges, replacing lattice masts by pole mast, two funnels trunked into one sthack) and adding a catapult) ) between 1 April 1925-1 November 1926, decommissioned on 16 February 1931, but sold to be broken up at Philadelphia and stricken on 6 April 1931.
Displacement 22.175 (standard)-23.043 (full load) tons and as dimensions 155,4 (waterline)-159 over all) x 26,9-32 (after modernisation) x 8,7 (mean)-9,2 (maximum) metres or 510-521.6 x 88.3-101 x 28.6-30.1 feet. The 4 Parsons steam turbines (replaced in 1924-1925 by Curtiss geared steam turbines) and 14 coal fuelled Babcock&Wilcox water tube boilers (reboilered 1925-1926 with 4 White-Forster oil-fuelled boilers) supplied via 4 screws 28.000 (design)-40.511 (trials) shp allowing a speed of 21 (design)-22,08 (trial) knots and with a speed of respectively 10 and 20 knots a range of 5.776 and 2.760 nautical miles. Coal bunker capacity 1.694 (standard)-2.560 (maximum) and a oil bunker capacity of 400 tons. Crew numbered 1.001 men. The armour consisted of a 22,9-27,9cm/9-11” thick belt, 3,8cm/1.5” thick decks with the lower casemate, upper casemate, barbettes, turrets and conning tower protected by respectively 20,3-25,4cm/8-1”, 12,7cm/5”, 10,2-25,4cm/4-10”, 30,5cm/12” (face) and 29,2cm/11.5”. The armament consisted of 5x2-30,5cm12” /45 Mark 5 guns, 16-12,7cm/5” /51 guns, 4-5,7cm/6pd/2.2” guns, 2-3,7cm/1pd/1.5” guns and 53,3cm/2-21” submerged torpedo tubes. In 1917 were 2-7,6xm/3” /23 anti aircraft guns added. Originally was a main armament of 8-35,6cm/14” /45 guns planned but these were not available at the time.
