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	USN Ship Types--Montana class (BB-67 through BB-71)
		The five battleships of the Montana class, authorized under the 1940 "Two Ocean Navy" building program and funded in Fiscal Year 1941, were the last of their kind ordered by the U.S. Navy.
		To achieve these advances, the Montana class was designed for a slower maximum speed than the very fast Iowas and had a beam too wide to pass through the existing Panama Canal locks.
		Large official model of this abortive class of battleship, photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 7 October 1944.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/bb/bb67.htm (1333 words)

	Montana class battleship: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		To achieve these advances, the Montana class was designed for a slower maximum speed than the very fast Iowas and had a beam too wide to pass through the existing Panama Canal locks.
		Completion of the Montana class would have given the late 1940s U.S. Navy a total of seventeen new battleships, a considerable advantage over any other nation, or probable combination of nations.
		In July 1943, when it was clear that the battleship was no longer the dominant element of sea power, their construction was cancelled.
	www.encyclopedian.com /mo/Montana-class-battleship.html (425 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battleship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The global arms race in battleship construction in the early 1900s was a significant factor in the origins of the First World War, which saw a clash of huge battlefleets at the Battle of Jutland.
		Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries.
		Battleships evolved from northern European cogs, and included carracks and galleons in the 16th Century, ships of the line in the 17th and 18th centuries, broadside ironclads and Pre-Dreadnoughts in the 19th century, and Dreadnoughts in the 20th Century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battleship (1150 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Montana class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To achieve these advances, the Montana class was designed for a slower maximum speed than the very fast Iowas and had a beam too wide to pass through the existing Panama Canal locks.
		Completion of the Montana class would have given the late 1940s U.S. Navy a total of seventeen new battleships, a considerable advantage over any other nation, or probable combination of nations.
		In July 1943, when it was clear that the battleship was no longer the dominant element of sea power, their construction was cancelled.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/mo/Montana_class_battleship (403 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > South Dakota class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Two classes of battleships have been called the South Dakota class -- one that was cancelled before launching and one that commissioned and saw action.
		The first South Dakota class was authorized 4 March 1917, and keels were laid down in 1920 for six ships.
		In 1942 and 1943, they stood guard in the Atlantic against possible sorties by German battleships, took part in the invasion of North Africa and in operations around Guadalcanal.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/so/South_Dakota_class_battleship (421 words)

	Battleship Information
		Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries.
		Battleships evolved from northern European cogs, and included carracks and galleons in the 16th Century, ships of the line in the 17th and 18th centuries, broadside ironclads and Pre-Dreadnoughts in the 19th century, and Dreadnoughts in the 20th Century.
		The 12-inch (305 mm) mains and 8-inch (200 mm) intermediates were generally used for battleship to battleship combat, while the secondaries (typically 7-inch (178 mm) to 5-inch (127 mm)) were reserved for smaller threats, cruisers and the new destroyers.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Battleship (7367 words)

	Montana Class
		Because of her great size, this class would not be able to steam at the 45,000-ton Iowa-class' 33 knots, but at the more sedately 28-30 knots of the South Dakota-class.
		Montana's maiden war cruise was an uneventful escort of a Arkangelsk-bound convoy.
		Battleships Montana, Massachusetts, Saint Andrew and Duke of York, the "A" team of Allied gunships, was on an interception course to prevent German battlewagons from cutting off a convoy leaving Iceland for Russia.
	www.combinedfleet.com /furashita/montan_f.htm (717 words)

	History and Heritage - Battleships
		The term "battleship" that came into usage in the mid-1880s was derived from a term from an earlier 19th Century naval era, "ship-of-the-line." "Ship-of-the-line" described the primary warship classes that were characterized by large size, heavy armor, and carrying a main battery of large caliber guns as well as smaller caliber guns of varying sizes.
		All existing battleships and other similar major combatant types that came before were classified as pre-dreadnoughts, reflecting that their capabilities dropped them to a second class rating.
		Although authorized, none of the Montana Class was constructed as the post-war emphasis was transferred to the new capital ship, the aircraft carrier.
	www.battleshipnc.com /history/battleships.php (0 words)

	The BB 67 Montana - class
		The five battleships of the MONTANA - class, authorized under the 1940 "Two Ocean Navy" building program and funded in Fiscal Year 1941, were the last of their kind ordered by the U.S. Navy.
		To achieve these advances, the MONTANA - class was designed for a slower maximum speed than the very fast IOWAs and had a beam too wide to pass through the existing Panama Canal locks.
		Completion of the MONTANA - class would have given the late 1940s U.S. Navy a total of seventeen new battleships, a considerable advantage over any other nation, or probable combination of nations.
	www.united-states-navy.com /bb/bb67class.htm (301 words)

	Iowa class battleship - Definition, explanation
		Reconnaissance and gunnery-spotting are a crucial role on any battleship and most of the later classes of battleship utilize aircraft to facilitate those missions.
		Third, all four of the Iowa class battleships were recommissioned and refitted under Ronald Reagan's administration as part of Reagan's "600-ship Navy" plan, particularly in response to the Soviet Navy commissioning the Kirov class.
		The United States has not manufactured the 16 inch (406 mm) battleship shell ammunition since the 1950s and 1960s because a reserve of nearly 15,000 of the 16 in (406 mm) shells are in storage, in case the battleships are reactivated.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/i/io/iowa_class_battleship.php (3370 words)

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		Since the modernized battleships were concieved first and foremost as cruise missile armed strike platforms (theoretically anyway) this made them expensive and redundant.
		Aside from the whole battleship concept being obsolete, the Iowas, even when kitted with TLAMs etc. were still nothing more than expensive launching platforms, the 16s made in almost all situations totally redundant by AS missles, etc. Basically, public prestige and interest are perhaps the only things keeping the Iowas afloat.
		Battleships were vital and neccessary for thier time, but thier time ended when Aircraft carriers were made practical and functional, and that was in the 1930s.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/8-3517.aspx (836 words)

	Reviews of 'Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia'
		In 1955 the ex-Italian Soviet battleship, now called "Novorossik" sets off a German mine from WWII, started taking a list, the Soviets send in new sailors to hand pump out the ship, it rolls over, and was loss with a fantastic amount of life.
		However, Wyoming was removed as a battleship in compliance with the Washington treaty of 1933.
		However, since the American Montana class is never laid down it's not the subject of analysis of this book.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/155750184X.html (880 words)

	About Facts Net
		The US had begun construction of the Montana class battleship in 1941 but cancelled it in 1943 when it felt that there was no need for such a huge battleship since carriers were the most powerful ships and planes could sink any battleship.
		If Montana class battleships would have been built, they would have been the only US battleships that would have had armor that could protect them from guns that were the same size as their own.
		Battleships were not the only weapons that Germany was working on.
	aboutfacts.net /Weapons23.htm (847 words)

	Battleship - Military History Wiki
		The main battleship nations during this period were Britain, France and Russia, plus newcomers Germany, Austria and Italy, while Turkey and Spain built small numbers of armored frigates and cruisers, and Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands built smaller "coastal battleships" (pantserschip) of up to 5,000 tons.
		Battleships had also played a major role in the Battle of Cape Matapan, 27–29 March 1941, when three Italian heavy cruisers were surpised and overwhelmed by a British battleship force near Crete.
		Battleships still in existence as museums include the American North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the British Mary Rose, Victory and Warrior, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen and the Japanese Mikasa.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /index.php?title=Battleship (2884 words)

	"Yamato" Photo Gallery
		She and her sister, Musashi were by far the largest battleships ever built, even exceeding in size and gun caliber (though not in weight of broadside) the U.S. Navy's abortive Montana class.
		Their nine 460mm (18.1-inch) main battery guns, which fired 1460kg (3200 pound) armor piercing shells, were the largest battleship guns ever to go to sea, and the two ships' scale of armor protection was also unsurpassed.
		Battleship Musashi was sunk and a heavy cruiser forced to retire.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /Japonia/Battleships/1941_Yamato_class/_Yamato_photos.html (2521 words)

	Alt_Naval - Not Started
		It shows Polish GROM class destroyer as she might have looked like if she was built in Sweden in 1933.
		The California and Maryland class battleships were scheduled to be rebuilt in the mid-late 1930's but the work was deferred.
		The original proposal for the North Carolina Class with 14" guns to conply with the 1936 London Treaty.
	www.geocities.com /alt_naval/notstarted.htm (575 words)

	United States
		Based on the Niagara Class Battlecruisers, the Bunker Hill removes the aft guns in favor of a flight deck and hanger.
		Three Lexington Class battlecruisers were converted to carriers, the other three remained as battlecruisers, though each looked considerably different.
		The North Carolina class as planned, with quad 14" turrets, a single funnel, and 16 5" guns in single and twin turrets.
	wolfsshipyard.mystarship.com /Misc/NeverWeres/united.htm (820 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The British built their Queen Elizabeth and R-class battleships with eight 15-inch guns apiece, the Germans followed with their Baden class, and the Italians with the Caracciolo class fast battleships, all with the same main armament.
		The Maryland class was a variant of the preceding Tennessee, with four turrets mounting a pair of 16-inch guns replacing the previous design’s triple 14-inch turrets.
		For U.S. Navy Plan Gold, all four Maryland class battleships are present, including Washington, as well as four South Dakota class — two in the 1917 scheme, and two in the “up-gunned” proposal with 18-inch guns.
	www.avalanchepress.com /Battleships1916.php?mode=print (1148 words)

	StarFleet Battlships, Iowa class
		Ships authriozed under the Naval Constuction Contract number 2161 are not as large as the Klingon's B10 or conjectural Federation Mars class BB but rely on their advanced technology, speed, maneuver and overwhelming firepower to match the larger ships in combat.
		The "fast batleship" desgination is not to be confused with the fast cruisers, I use the fast desgination as a historical tip of the hat to the orginal Iowa class battleships authorized by Congress on 17 May 1938.
		The BB61 class were designed from the start with an abundance of horsepower, 212,000 shp which would drive the ships to 33 knots.
	www.gnt.net /~wright/sfb2.html (0 words)

	USN Ship Types--Battleships
		U.S. Navy battleship construction began with the keel laying of the Maine in 1888 and ended with the suspension of the incomplete Kentucky (BB-66) in 1947.
		Except for the fast Lexington Class battle cruisers and Iowa Class battleships, these were all relatively slow vessels, as heavily armored as they were armed, intended primarily to steam in formation with their "sisters" and slug it out with similar opponents, using their powerful guns to settle the matter.
		Though the Alaska class large cruisers (CB-1 through CB-6) of 1941 are actually part of the cruiser design lineage, some sources persist in (mistakenly) referring to them as "battle cruisers".
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/bb/bb.htm (0 words)

	Warship Pictures
		American battleship USS Oklahoma in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where she was struck by multiple torpedoes and capsized in 11 minutes.
		American Battleship USS Wisconsin on builders trials, 1988 (Photo by Ingalls Shipbuilding as it appeared in the "Wisconsin Homepage") Scanned and contributed by Mike Green.
		British battleship HMS King George V in 1941, the year she engaged the Bismarck (photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).
	www.chuckhawks.com /warship_pictures.htm (822 words)

	U.S.S Montana Class Histories (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name MONTANA was assigned to BB-67 on 28 December 1940; but construction of the MONTANA-class battleship by Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa., was canceled 21 July 1943, before her keel was laid.
		Construction of NEW HAMPSHIRE (BB-70), a battleship to be built by New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., was canceled 21 July 1943.
		Building of battleship LOUISIANA (BB-71) was authorized 19 July 1940 and assigned to the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va.; but before her keel was laid, construction was canceled 21 July 1943.
	www.warships1.com /US/USbb67-history.htm (172 words)

	The Wells Brothers' Battleship Index: The Tillman Battleships
		Since in reality, six South Dakota battleships were begun, it might be reasonable for a wargamer or alternate history writer to re-use the most of the names and pennant numbers of the South Dakota class for the Tillman battleships.
		One Colorado class battleship, the USS West Virginia (BB-48), was extensively damaged at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941.
		She was extensively reconstructed with large hull bulges, a modern dual purpose secondary battery similar to that on the North Carolina (BB-55) and later classes, a modern superstructure, (once again, similar to those on the newer battleships) and modern electronics.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/TillmanBB.html (4478 words)

	Battleship Photo Index BB-67 MONTANA
		The name Montana was assigned to BB-67 on 28 December 1940; but construction of the Montana class battleship by Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa., was canceled 21 July 1943, before her keel was laid.
		Artist's conception of the Montana class (BB-67/71) whose construction was cancelled on 21 July 1943.
		Model of a Montana class (BB-67/71) battleship photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 26 November 1941.
	www.navsource.org /archives/01/67.htm (0 words)

	South Dakota class battleship - Definition, explanation
		The first South Dakota class was an outgrowth of the Standard type battleships, though a greatly modified form: Displacement would have been 20,000 tons greater than the other Standards, with only a two-knot increase in speed.
		The class was ordered in the same program that created the Lexington-class battlecruisers; the Lexingtons made better conversion hulls because they were further along in their construction and battlecruisers were seen as less useful overall than battleships.
		Built with Fiscal Year 1939 appropriations, they were more compact and better protected than the preceding North Carolina class, but had the same main battery of nine 16 inch (406 mm) 45-caliber guns in triple turrets.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/so/south_dakota_class_battleship.php (610 words)

	United States (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Based on the Niagara Class Battlecruisers, the Bunker Hill removes the aft guns in favor of a flight deck and hanger.
		Three Lexington Class battlecruisers were converted to carriers, the other three remained as battlecruisers, though each looked considerably different.
		The North Carolina class as planned, with quad 14" turrets, a single funnel, and 16 5" guns in single and twin turrets.
	home.sc.rr.com /dwspage/MISC/Never_Weres/united.htm (820 words)

	US Navy Battleships WW2
		U.S. Navy battleship construction began with the keel laying of the Maine in 1888 and ended with the suspension of the incomplete Kentucky in 1947.
		During this almost 60 years long era, 59 battleships of 23 different basic battleship classes were completed for the US Navy.
		The second building phase began in 1937 and was effectively finished in 1944 with the commissioning of battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), the last of ten battleships completed during this period.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/hisbb.htm (0 words)

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