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America's biggest battleship never built: 71,000 tons, 921 feet, twelve 16-inch guns, a 16.1-inch belt, and a 121-foot beam too wide for the Panama...
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America's biggest battleship never built: 71,000 tons, 921 feet, twelve 16-inch guns, a 16.1-inch belt, and a 121-foot beam too wide for the Panama...
Four Iowa-class battleships left mothballs with 32 Tomahawks in eight armored boxes, 16 Harpoons, and guns that put 15 shells into a 220-yard pattern....
Reactivating USS New Jersey alone was estimated at $247 million in 1982, about $857 million today. The battleships got AN/SPS-49 radars, SLQ-32 electronic warfare...
At Truk in 1944 she became the only Iowa to fire her main guns at enemy warships. Off Vietnam she fired 5,688 16-inch shells...
Floated out unfinished in 1950 so USS Missouri could be repaired, torn loose by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and studied as a $178 million...
Their biggest surface fight was a light cruiser and a destroyer at Truk in February 1944. At Leyte Gulf, Third Fleet took Iowa and...
The Iowas came back in the 1980s for $435 million each with 32 Tomahawks bolted on deck. USS Zumwalt traded its guns for 12...
The Tennessee-class ship USS California cost $12.75 million to build and sold for $859,999 in 1959. Four of her crew earned the Medal of...
The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
The 728-foot North Carolina-class battleship fired a 24,300-pound broadside from nine 16-inch guns. She earned 13 battle stars, survived a 1944 collision with USS...