DEFENCE

397

Pre- Dreadnought Battleships.

Laid down

1891 1 1 1893

Name

P ■

Tons

Oregon . .V Massachusetts j- 11,000 Indiana . J

Iowa

Aral our

PP

11,400

1896 ^ { Kearsarge . .\\ ., .qq ^'^^ ^ 1 Kentucky . ./i ^^'^^^

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I

1902 -J

Pi

1903

1904

If

l{

1904 ^ r

CO I

1905 3

1906

1907

1909 1910 1911 1912

Alabama Illinois . Wisconsin

Maine Missouri Ohio . ,

/

11,565

12,585

New Jersey .\ Virginia . . . I Georgia . . ., 14,948 Nebraska . Rhode Island

Louisiana . Connecticut

Idaho M

16,000

aho. . . .| 13 000 ississippi ./ '

18

14

16J

16^

12

11

11

ins.

Principal Armament

8| 4 13in.; 8 8in.

Kansas . \ Vermont . .1 ,^ ^^nn ' « Minnesota . .f ^^'^OO i ^ NewHampshirej

14

15

16^

12

10

10

12

12

4 12in.; 8 8in.

4 13in.; 4 8in.; 18 5in.

413in.; 14 6in.

4 12in.; 16 6in.

4 12in.; 8 Sin.; 12 6in.

4 12in.; 8 8in.; 12 Tin.

4 12in.; 8 8in.; 8 7in. 4 12in.; S Sin.; 12 7in.

S. Carolina . . Michigan

Delaware N. Dakota

Utah . . Florida .

Wyoming Arkansas

Texas New York

Nevada . Oklahoma

}'".

Dreadnoughts.

000

20,000

! 21,825 26,000 27,000 27,500

12

8 12in.

12

1012in.;

14 Sin.

12

10 12in.

10 5iii.

11 12

12 12in.

21 Sin.

10 14in.

21 Sin.

13^

18

10 14in.

21 Sin.

—

—

—

-73 M U ^

OH

pS

9,500

11,000

10,500

10,000

16,000

4 19,000

16,500

10,000

16,500

<X <v,

35 P-

P

2

16,500

2

25,000

i}

28,000

2

28,000

2

35,000

—

35,000

—

kn'ts 17

16-5 16

16

18

19

18

17 18

18-5

21

20-75 20-5 21 20-5

1913 Pennsylvania

(Turbines introduced with the ^. Dakota but abandoned for Oklahoma, Texas and New York)