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USS SARATOGA (CV-3) operating off Panama during Fleet Problem XV.

Date: April 21, 1934

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 93557

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USS PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38) near the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

Date: April 24, 1931

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 60688

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French Battleship Richelieu waiting for the President of the Republic Vincent Auriol for his trip to Dakar, in the harbor of Toulon, France.

Date: April 1947

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Battleship

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Preliminary design plan for a Small Battleship (C-5)

This plan was completed on April 23, 1919, and provided:

Main Battery: four 16-inch/50-caliber guns in two twin mount turrets

Secondary battery: twelve 6-inch guns

Torpedo Tubes: two submerged

AA battery: two 3-inch guns

Main Armor Belt: 12 inches

Machinery: turbo-electric drive

Top speed: 26 knots

Waterline Length: 650 feet

Beam: 95 feet

Normal Displacement: 33,400 tons

Draft: 30 feet

"The Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair requested on March 8, 1919 that his staff develop a set of comparative studies for ships of this type, apparently reflecting his desire to anticipate a possible early need for retrenchment from the large capital ship designs under development at the time. The C series Small Battleship designs, initiated on March 17, incorporated the four 16-inch gun armament and 12 inch side armor specified as an initial baseline for the type but had a further increased speed of 26 knots. The concept was not pursued. The original plan is in the 1911-1925 Spring Styles Book."

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: S-584-153

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USS AMPHITRITE (BM-2) off Rockaway, Long Island, New York.

Date: April 23, 1919

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-650318

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Rough Draft of a Preliminary Design for a Fast Battleship

Completed on April 23, 1918, this plan provided:

Main battery: twelve 16-inch guns

Secondary battery: sixteen 6 inch guns

AA battery: yes, unknown amount

Toredo tubes: 2 submerged

Main Armor Belt: 12 inch

Machinery: turbo-electric drive

Top speed: 30 1/4 knots

Waterline length: 900 feet

Beam: 106 feet

Normal displacement: 55,000 tons

Draft: 32 feet 6 inches

"A rough draft for a preliminary design plan intended to provide for a new fast battleship ship type. One of a series of preliminary designs prepared in response to Chief Constructor David Taylor's direction to his design staff on 9 April 1918 to examine combining the principal features of the battleship and battle cruiser classes ... to get as much speed as practicable in a vessel carrying a maximum battery and as much protection as possible. This drawing was made by Navy civilian naval architect James L. Bates and its final version is seen in Photo # S-584-134. No ships were built to this design. The original document was ink on linen (black on white). The original plan is in the 1911-1925 Spring Styles Book."

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: S-584-130

Artwork by Wolff Shipyard: link

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A view of USS MISSOURI (BB-63) at the reserve fleet at Bremerton, Washington.

This photograph was taken during the filming of the motion picture “MacArthur.”

Date: April 1976

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: USN 1168177

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Preliminary design plan for a Small Battleship (D-11)

This plan was completed on April 23, 1919 and provided:

Main Battery: four 16-inch guns

Secondary Battery: twelve 6-inch guns

AA Battery: two 3-inch guns

Torpedo Tubes: 2 submerged

Main Armor Belt: 12 inches

Machinery: electric drive machinery

Top speed: 29 knots

Waterline length: 710 feet

Beam: 96 feet 9 inches

Normal Displacement: 37,000 tons

Draft: 30.4 feet

"The Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair requested on March 8, 1919 that his staff develop a set of comparative studies for ships of this type, apparently reflecting his desire to anticipate a possible need, as early as the 1920 shipbuilding program, for retrenchment from the large capital ship designs under development at the time. The D series Small Battleship designs, initiated on March 17, incorporated the four 16-inch gun armament and 12 inch side armor specified as an initial baseline for the type but had a much higher speed of 29 knots. The concept was not pursued. The original plan is in the 1911-1925 Spring Styles Book."

Naval History and Heritage Command: S-584-154

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USS PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38) being fitting out at Newport News, Virginia.

Date: April 23, 1915

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 93528

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French Battleship Jean Bart at Toulon, France to be scrapped.

Date: April 5, 1970

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"USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) operating in the Pacific, photographed from a Douglas TBD-1 torpedo plane that has just taken off from her deck. Other TBD and SBD aircraft are also ready to be launched. A F4F-3 'Wildcat' fighter is parked on the outrigger just forward of the island. The other ships in the company include the fleet oiler USS GUADALUPE (AO-32), a destroyer and a heavy cruiser. This view has been retouched to censor the CXAM-radar antenna mounted atop Yorktown's foremast."

Date April 1942

U.S. Navy photo: 80-G-640553

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USS TEXAS (1892) stationed in a bay.

Date: 1895-97

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Ex-USS NORTH DAKOTA (BB-29) being converted into a target ship at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia.

Date: 1925

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An ad for Dr. Pepper soda honoring USS TEXAS (BB-35).

Date: April 5, 1914

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