Connecticut Class Battleship (1904)
Six Connecticut class battleships were completed for the U.S. Navy between 1906 and 1908.
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| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Connecticut | New York Navy Yard | 10 Mar, 1903 | 29 Sep, 1904 | 29 Sep, 1906 | Sold 1923 |
| Louisiana | Newport News | 7 Feb, 1903 | 27 Aug, 1904 | 2 Jun, 1906 | Sold 1923 |
| Vermont | Fore River | 21 May, 1904 | 31 Aug, 1905 | 4 Mar, 1907 | Sold 1923 |
| Kansas | New York Shipbuilding | 10 Feb, 1904 | 12 Aug, 1905 | 18 Apr, 1907 | Sold 1923 |
| Minnesota | Newport News | 27 Oct, 1903 | 8 Apr, 1905 | 9 Mar, 1907 | Sold 1924 |
| New Hampshire | New York Shipbuilding | 1 May, 1905 | 30 Jun, 1906 | 19 Mar, 1908 | Sold 1923 |
Contents
Electrical
The British reported extensively on the details of this class in their 1903 Annual Report of the Torpedo School.[1]
This class increased the voltage previously used to 125 volts.[2]
Two distinct electrical systems were installed, "battle service" and "lighting service", with separate mains and feeders. Battle service supplied everything required in action: all lights below the protective deck (engine room, magazines, lighting at guns hoists, winches). Lighting service was for comfort items, such as in cabins, messes, and the forty five 12-in desk fans and eight 16-in fans in the officers' quarters. There were 1,100 lighting fixtures in all, 730 of them on the battle service.[3]
Searchlights
Six 30-in hand-controlled projectors. They ran on 125 volts, drawing 80 amperes with 60 volts across the arc.[4]
Armament
Main Battery
The two 12-in and four 8-in turrets trained electrically, each driven by two identical motors (25/15 H.P. for the 12-in and 8-in turrets, respectively). The training motors ordinarily worked together, but either was capable of training the turret individually.[5] The Ward-Leonard control systems were modified over the system used in the previous class.[6]
The same guns had 7/5 H.P. rammer motors. Each gun had its own ammunition hoist (30/8 H.P.) which would rapidly reverse and could run in any of five speeds. Elevation was also electrical, by 5/2.5 H.P. motors.[7]
Secondary Battery
The 7-in guns were trained and elevated by hand.[8]
Torpedoes
The British recorded the particulars in 1911 as[9]
- four 21-in torpedoes firing on the broadside in two submerged flats
At 5 metres, the torpedoes were noted as being only as long as British 18-in torpedoes.
Twelve torpedoes were allowed, but generally six were in the forward flat and five in the aft.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. pp. 86-91.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. p. viii.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. p. 86.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. p. 86.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. pp. 86-7.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. p. 87.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. p. 88.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903. p. 88.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1911. p. 113.
Bibliography
- H.M.S. Vernon. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1903, with Appendix (Wireless Telegraphy). Copy 478 at The National Archives. ADM 189/23.
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