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	Pennsylvania class battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pennsylvania-class battleships, of the United States Navy, were an enlargement of the Nevada class; having two additional 14 in (356 mm) 45 caliber main battery guns, greater length and displacement, four propellers and slightly higher speed.
		Pennsylvania, assigned to duty as a fleet flagship, was given a greatly enlarged armored conning tower.
		The Pennsylvania class was part of the "Standard type battleship" concept of the US Navy, a design concept which gave the US Navy a homogenous line of battle (very important, as it allowed the Navy to plan maneuvers for the whole line of battle rather than detaching "fast wing"s and "slow wing"s).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pennsylvania_class_battleship (579 words)

	Tennessee class battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a result of extensive experimentation and testing, her underwater hull protection was much greater than that of previous battleships; and both her main and secondary batteries had fire-control systems.
		The Tennessee class, and the three ships of the Colorado class which followed, were identified by two heavy cage masts supporting large fire-control tops.
		The Tennessee class was part of the "Standard type battleship" concept of the US Navy, a design concept which gave the US Navy a homogenous line of battle (very important, as it allowed the Navy to plan maneuvers for the whole line of battle rather than detaching "fast wing"s and "slow wing"s).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennessee_class_battleship (279 words)

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		Pennsylvania opened fire on Butaritari Island with her main batte ry at the initial range of 14,200 yards and then opened with her secondary battery.
		On 14 June, Pennsylvania took part in the bombardment of Saipan preparatory to the assault landings made the next day while she cruised off the northeastern shore of Tinian, conducting heavy bombardment of that island to neutralize any enemy batter ies which might have opened fire on the landing beaches of Saipan.
		Pennsylvania and five other battleships, with cruisers and destroyers of Rear Adm iral Oldendorf's Force, steamed south and by nightfall were steaming slowly back and forth across the northern entrance of Surigao Strait, awaiting the approach of the enemy.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/battlesh/bb38.htm (3365 words)

	USS Arizona (BB-39)
		The battleship stood out of Brest harbor on May 3, bound for Asia Minor, and arrived at the port of Smyrna eight days later to protect American lives there during the Greek occupation of that port – an occupation resisted by gunfire from Turkish nationals.
		After a visit to Boston, the battleship dropped down to Norfolk, whence she sailed for San Pedro on August 1, assigned to Battleship Division 3, Battle Force.
		The battleship returned to Pearl Harbor on February 3 to resume the intensive training maintained by the Pacific Fleet.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_arizona__bb_39_.html (2415 words)

	Dreadnoughts: U.S. Battleships
		The reason for this was the Washington Treaty of 1921, which restricted the tonnage of total battleships a nation was allowed to possess (forcing Great Britian to scrap several of it's ships) and disallowed construction of battleships at all.
		Following this class was the South Dakota class, of the same tonnage as the North Carolinas, but was of a smaller length, allowing for the reduced weight be used for extended armor.
		This class had the same armament as the earlier fast battleships, nine 406mm guns, but of a newer and better model, and was able to go up to 33 (!) knots.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/ships/battleships (741 words)

	BB-38 Pennsylvania Class
		The Pennsylvania class battleships were an enlargement of the preceding Nevada class, with two more 14"/45 main battery guns, greater length and displacement, four propellers and slightly higher speed.
		The ARIZONA and its sister ship PENNSYLVANIA represented a modest improvement of the previous NEVADA-class battleships: length and displacement were somewhat increased and two additional 14-inch guns were shipped, the main armament now being arranged in four triple turrets.
		Pennsylvania was only lightly damaged, and she served in the Pacific throughout the Second World War.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/bb-38.htm (1048 words)

	Pennsylvania Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This concept was continued until the Colorado class which introduced twin 16" mounts.
		Very fine warships and among the favorites of the fleet, the Pennsylvania escaped major damage at Pearl Harbor but the Arizona was basically destroyed by a magazine explosion.
		Pennsylvania went on to serve right through World War II until extensively damaged by a torpedo aft near the end of the war.
	www.warships1.com /US/USbb38-Penn.htm (309 words)

	Tillman Maximum Battleships
		The "maximum battleships," also known as the "Tillman Battleships" were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 to the order of Senator "Pitchfork" Benjamin Tillman.
		Tillman's first request, in 1912-1913, was never completed, and though the studies it involved had some influence on the design of the Pennsylvania class of battleships, that class was essentially just an enlargement of the preceeding Nevada class.
		However, the casemates on the "maximum battleships" would have been higher above the waterline than they had been on earlier designs, so it is possible that their huge size and flush decks would have provided enough freeboard astern to keep the casemates dry.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/bb-1917.htm (543 words)

	Battleships
		The Battleship Tirpitz by Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke
		Battleships of the Scharnhorst class Excellent English language translation of the German Original, highly recommended for those with an interest in the class.
		The massive battleship was only 50 miles south of Japan when she was overwhelmed and sunk by US Navy aircraft, again only affer taking an incredible amount of damage from torpedos and bombs.
	members.aol.com /ssycatalog/battleships.html (3184 words)

	Standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Standard type battleship was a series of US Navy battleships with relatively homogenous handling characteristics including a 21 knot flank speed and a 700 yard tactical diameter at flank speed.
		There were five classes in the Standard program, plus a sixth which was canceled: Nevada class, Pennsylvania class, New Mexico class, Tennessee class (called in contemporary European publications the California class, as USS California (BB-44) was commissioned first) and Colorado class (called in contemporary European publications the Maryland class for the same reasons as above).
		The class which was canceled and broken up was the BB-49 South Dakota class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Standard (759 words)

	Dreadnought
		Battleships missed their chance for many surface actions because they were being held back for the more "serious" fleet actions that never occurred.
		The few glorious moments of battleships were born of desperation, both between the British and the Germans and between the United States and Japan.
		Of the earlier class of ships, the France had been lost in 1922, the Courbet and Paris escaped to Britain in 1940, and the Jean Bart, renamed Océan, was scuttled in Toulon in 1942 when the Germans moved to occupy all of France.
	www.friesian.com /dreadnot.htm (8601 words)

	Find U.S.S. Pennsylvania Battleship Art Prints! Get results at MarkChurms.com
		Old Pennsy, a survivor of Pearl Harbor and Naval Unit Citation recipient, is the first of the American battleships to enter Leyte Gulf and the last to leave, after fulfilling her important role in the Philippines Campaign.
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	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.
		If a Tillman battleship had been similarly damaged in the 1940s, one could imagine that she might have been similarly reconstructed, and emerged as a very formidable warship.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/TillmanBB.html (4478 words)

	History of USS Arizona
		After a year of intense labor, it was launched on June 19, 1915, as the second and last of the Pennsylvania class battleships.
		The battleship's commissioning took place on October 16, 1916, under the command of Captain John D. McDonald.
		A month later the new battleship was ordered to rendezvous with the transport George Washington that was carrying President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference.
	www.pastfoundation.org /Arizona/ArizonaHistory.htm (591 words)

	USN Ship Types--Pennsylvania class (BB-38 and BB-39)
		Pennsylvania (BB-38), built by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia.
		Pennsylvania was then serving as flagship of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, Admiral David F. Sellers, USN.
		View of the battleship's forward 14"/45 guns and her forward superstructure, circa the early 1930s.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/bb/bb38cl.htm (827 words)

	VFW Day Post 7591 USS Wisconsin (BB-64) Memorial Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Iowa class of battleships was the last class of these type ships built by the United States Navy.
		Because the Wisconsin was the last battleship to be re-commissioned, she also became the most modern and the only ship to receive a new teak wood deck.
		Keeping a battleship on active duty is not cheap, secondly the turret explosion in the B turret of the USS Iowa (BB-61) a year or two previously, which killed everyone in the turret (46 personnel), probably made the navy believe that these ships should be retired from active service.
	members.terracom.net /~vfwpost/usswis64.html (1008 words)

	USS Arizona BB-39 History
		USS Arizona was one of two Pennsylvania class battleships.
		The ceremony in which she was laid down at the New York Navy Yard took place on March 16, 1914 and was attended by Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, later president of the United States.
		The Pennsylvania class battleships were a new design, one fired by oil rather than the more traditional coal.
	www.ibiblio.org /phha/arizona/history.html (1185 words)

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		Under the “all or nothing” protection scheme, first introduced in the previous Nevada class battleships, this class had the thickest possible armor for the most vulnerable parts of the ship and well-designed internal compartmenting to limit flooding in less important places.
		All United States dreadnought battleships were named after states and were assigned a hull number (officially starting in 1920) that was normally displayed on the hull.
		Her sister ship Pennsylvania survived a torpedo hit off Okinawa during which she shipped 3,400 tons of seawater aft and was finally sunk after use as a target in the Bikini A-Bomb tests.
	www.lostbattalion.com /bb/Arizona.html (465 words)

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		Class was the last USN battleship to have rounded turrets and the ram bow, as the following
		She, along with the other oil fired battleships, stayed back and only coal-fired ships joined the Grand Fleet, as fuel oil was in short supply in Britain.
		In 1934 she was flagship of Battleship Division 2 and flag of Division1 in 1937.
	www.steelnavy.com /DragonArizona.htm (1734 words)

	Catalog-Molded Parts Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was used as the secondary armament on almost ALL of the battleships, heavy cruisers, and light cruisers built after 1940 and was retro-fitted as the preferred secondary armament to almost all of the older US battleships.
		TUR-ARIZONA is used on the USS Arizona and USS Pennsylvania class battleships.
		TUR-TENN is used on the USS Tennessee-California class and the USS New Mexico-Mississippi-Idaho class battleships.
	www.swampworks.com /Catalog-Molded-Parts.html (1258 words)

	Pennsylvania class
		These ships were orderd in 1912 and 1913, respectively, and were enlargend versions of the Nevada class, with two more guns and better armor.
		Pennsylvania was sitting in a drydock during the Pearl Harbor raid, and suffered only one bomb hit for moderate damage.
		She was repaired at Mare Island, but did not receive major refits, for her presence in the Pacific theater was of more immediate concern.
	www.microworks.net /PACIFIC/ships/battleships/pennsylvania.htm (275 words)

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		She is the first of a class of ships designed to effectively compete against Japanese cruisers in World War II.
		Although she was not commissioned until after the end of the war her design concept and equipment date from the war.
		She is the first ship of her class and is in the best condition of the three cruisers.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/warships4.htm (278 words)

	Articles - Colorado class battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fourth of the class, Washington, was the only new U.S. ship cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armaments that had actually been launched.
		The massively damaged West Virginia was salvaged in 1942 and 1943, and received the same extensive modernization applied to the two Tennessees: hull widened to 34.7 meters (114 ft), greatly improved fire controls and anti-aircraft batteries, a secondary battery of sixteen five-inch (127 mm) 38-caliber guns in twin mounts, and a generally "modern" appearance.
		The Colorado class was part of the "Standard type battleship" concept of the US Navy, a design concept which gave the US Navy a homogenous line of battle (very important, as it allowed the Navy to plan maneuvers for the whole line of battle rather than detaching "fast wing"s and "slow wing"s).
	gaple.com /articles/Colorado_class_battleship?... (706 words)

	real warships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Magnificent Battleship USS Iowa - This gallery is devoted to lead ship of America's final Battleship class, the ultimate evolution of the Battleship.
		Standing with quiet dignity and majesty across from historic downtown Wilmington, the Battleship North Carolina beckons visitors to walk her decks and envision daily life as well as fierce combat situations that her veterans faced in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.
		The Battleship TEXAS is the last dreadnought in existence in the world, a veteran of Vera Cruz (1914) and both World Wars, and is credited with the introduction and innovation of advances in gunnery, aviation and radar.
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	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most classes of warship are well represented by high quality kit manufacturers, and any individual vessel within a class can be represented.
		The Nevada class battleships carried the U.S. Navy's first triple gun turrets, a feature that would be seen in all but a few of its future battleship designs.
		They were a new type for the Navy, the "fast battleship", intended to protect aircraft carriers against the threat of similar Japanese "big gun" ships, as well as to form a "fast wing" for the traditional battle line.
	members.shaw.ca /matwiyj/battleships.html (562 words)

	USN Ship Types--Mississippi class (Battleships 23 and BB-24)
		The Mississippi class represented the U.S. Navy's final design of what would soon be called "pre-dreadnoughts", battleships with a main battery of two or more different-sized guns.
		Congressional action limited their displacement, a response to the rising size and cost of battleships that was also justified by the hardy theory that numbers of ships are more important that the quality of individual units.
		Accordingly, they were smaller, slower and shorter-ranged than their contemporaries, though their armament was similar in power: A pair of 12-inch guns in a turret at each end of the superstructure, 8-inch guns mounted in two twin turrets on each side amidships and four 7-inch guns in casemates on each side of the hull.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/bb/bb23cl.htm (812 words)

	Biographies of Alexender Ramsey Class of 1978 Graduates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After my youngest was born, I began taking some evening classes and I decided to make a career change and returned to school full-time for nursing.
		I know there were alot of class mates who were unable to come to the last one so I hope all that can attend, will attend.
		This spring, a 3M engineer and I presented a demonstration to the five 3rd grade classes at Snail Lake (my oldest daughter's school) The presentation was part of National Engineers Week, and was designed to encourage the interest in math and science by school agers.
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	Ships Store
		The second is that I am from Pennsylvania and I am proud of the states veterans who have fought in all wars.
		LLoyd Lachtrupp and your father and yourself have given me. All the men on the USS Pennsylvania were truly a big family and now here it is 55 years later and you are still helping to ease the minds of the families of those who lost loved ones from the ship.
		He was a Gunners Mate 3rd class and worked on the Quad Forty MM gun.
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	United States Navy - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The USN did not have a large part in this war, with its action mainly being confined to escorting convoys later in the war and sending a division of battleships to reinforce the British Grand Fleet.
		The mainstay of the Tomahawk equipped vessels in the early days of the missile's deployment were the Iowa class battleships, and the submarine fleet.
		The Tomahawk was first used in combat on 17 January 1991, on the opening night of Operation Desert Storm.
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