The Maine class was a group of three United States Navy battleships, Maine, Missouri and Ohio, built at the turn of the 20th century on the preceding Illinois class design. They were the first American battleships to use Krupp cemented armor, smokeless powder and water-tube boilers, and each carried four 12-inch guns and sixteen 6-inch guns and could steam at 18 knots on coal-fired boilers and triple-expansion steam engines. When the Navy learned that a Russian battleship ordered from Cramp would be faster than the design, the bidders lengthened their hulls, and the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company proposal was the one chosen. Newport News built Missouri, which was laid down there on 7 February 1900, while Ohio was built on the West Coast. All three cruised with the Great White Fleet in 1907 to 1909 and were training ships in World War I. They were withdrawn from service in 1919 and 1920 and sold for scrap in 1922 and 1923.
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Source USS Missouri (BB-11) (Wikipedia)Construction, builderQuote, Construction, builder
Missouri was laid down at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company on 7 February 1900, the third member of the class to be begun.
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a large naval expansion program was passed through Congress
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Three Maine class battleships were authorized in FY1899 in response to Russian battleships which had greater speed.
Lead, ships in class
All three cruised with the Great White Fleet in 1907-09 and served during World War One.
In Group: Battleships and Battlecruisers, Lead, battleship class
Three Maine class battleships were authorized in FY1899 in response to Russian battleships which had greater speed.
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Three Maine class battleships were authorized in FY1899 in response to Russian battleships which had greater speed.
View the Source2. USS Missouri (BB-11) (Wikipedia)
Lead, launch
She was launched on 28 December 1901 and commissioned into the fleet on 1 December 1903.
Of Make: Newport News Shipbuilding, Construction
Missouri was laid down at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company on 7 February 1900, the third member of the class to be begun.
View the Source3. Maine-class battleship (Wikipedia)
Fate
All three ships were sold for scrap, with Maine and Missouri going to the breakers' yard in January 1922 and Ohio joining them in March 1923.
Machinery, engines
The ships were powered by two-shaft triple-expansion steam engines rated at 16,000 indicated horsepower (12,000 kW).
Machinery, power
The ships were powered by two-shaft triple-expansion steam engines rated at 16,000 indicated horsepower (12,000 kW).
Machinery, boilers
Steam was provided by twelve coal-fired Thornycroft boilers for Missouri and Ohio, and twenty-four Niclausse boilers for Maine, which were trunked into three tall funnels amidships.
Machinery, speed
The ships' engines generated a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Design, displacement
up to 13,700 long tons (13,900 t) at full load
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