USS KEARSARGE BB 5 IN DOCK 19

USS KEARSARGE ( BB 5 ) AN AMERICAN CRUISER 1898

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS SECTION WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

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PORT SIDE DETAIL

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: USS Kearsarge
Namesake: USS Kearsarge (1861)
Awarded: 2 January 1896
Builder: Newport News SB&DD
Cost: US$5,043,591.68
Laid down: 30 June 1896
Launched: 24 March 1898

Sponsored by: Wife of Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow

Commissioned: 20 February 1900
Decommissioned: 4 September 1909
Identification: Hull symbol: BB-5
Recommissioned: 23 June 1915
Decommissioned: 10 May 1920

Renamed: Crane Ship No. 1, 6 November 1941
Reclassified: IX-16, 17 July 1920; AB-1, 5 August 1920
Struck: 22 June 1955
Fate: Sold for scrap, 9 August 1955

Notes: Only US Battleship not named after a State

General characteristics

Class and type: Kearsarge-class pre-dreadnought battleship

Displacement: 11,540 short tons (10,470 t)
Length: 375 ft 4 in (114.40 m)
Beam: 72 ft 3 in (22.02 m)
Draft: 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Installed power: 5 boilers, 11,674 ihp (8,705 kW)
Propulsion: 2 VTE engines, 2 propeller shafts

Speed: 17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h)

Boats & landing

craft carried: 6 cutters, 2 launches, 1 barge, 2 whaleboats, 1 gig, 2 dinghies, 2 catamarans

Complement: 40 officers and 514 enlisted men

Armament:

4 × 13 in (330 mm)/35 caliber guns
4 × 8 in (203 mm)/35 caliber guns
14 × 5 in (127 mm)/40 caliber guns
20 × 6-pounders (57 mm or 2.2 in)
8 × 1-pounders (37 mm or 1.5 in)
4 × .30 in (7.6 mm) machine guns
4 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

Armor:

Belt: 5–16.5 in (127–419 mm)
Barbettes: 12.5–15 in (318–381 mm)
Turrets (primary): 15–17 in (381–432 mm)
Turrets (secondary): 6–11 in (152–279 mm)
Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm)

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