(Vanilla) USS Iowa BB-61, Late 1944
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USS Iowa (BB-61) is the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Ordered in July 1939,She was laid down at New York Naval Shipyard in June 1940. She was launched on 27 August 1942, sponsored by Ilo Wallace (wife of Vice President Henry Wallace), and commissioned on 22 February 1943 with Captain John L. McCrea in command. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships.
USS Iowa was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. She carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a conference of vital importance in 1943 in Tehran with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands. She also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Admiral William F. Halsey’s flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
USS Iowa’s main battery consisted of nine 16 in (406 mm)/50 caliber Mark 7 guns, which could fire 2,700 lb (1,200 kg) armor-piercing shells 20 nmi (23 mi; 37 km). Her secondary battery consisted of twenty 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal guns in twin mounts, which could fire at targets up to 12 nmi (14 mi; 22 km) away. With the advent of air power and the need to gain and maintain air superiority came a need to protect the growing fleet of Allied aircraft carriers; to this end, Iowa was fitted with an array of Oerlikon 20 mm and Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns to defend Allied carriers from enemy airstrikes.
(Late 1944)
Displacement(Standard):45,000 tons
Displacement(Full load):57,540 tons
Length(Overall):270.44 m
Length(Waterline):262.1m
Beam:33m
Draft:11.5 m at 57,540 tons
Boilers:4 x Babcock & Wilcox dual-furnace controlled superheat boilers, working at 850°F (454°C) and 656psi (38.5atm)
Turbines:4 x General Electric geared turbine sets
Maximum machinery output:212,000shp
Maximum speed:33 knots
Range:Up to 20,150NM (37,318km) at 15 knots;Up to 4,830NM (8,945km) at 33 knots
Complement:117 officers, 1,804 enlisted men (designed)
Sensors and processing systems:
1 × SK-2 early-warning radar
2 × SG surface-search radars
2 × Mk-8 fire-control radars
4 × Mk-12 fire-control radars
4 × Mk-22 height-finder radars
1 × Mk-27 fire-control radar
Armament
3 × triple 16in(406 mm)/50 Mark 7 guns
10 × twin 5in(127 mm)/38 Mark12 DP guns
20 × quadruple 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors Mk1,Mk2 AA guns
51 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon Mark 4 AA guns
Armor Arrangement
Upper armour belt: 12.1in. + 1.5in. STS (307mm + 38mm STS)
Lower armour belt: 12.1in. tapering to 1.625in. below (307mm–41mm)
Decks: main deck 1.5in. STS (38mm STS); second deck 5.8in.–4.75in. + 1.25in. STS (147mm–121mm + 38mm STS);
splinter deck 0.625in. STS (16mm STS); third deck outside the citadel 6.2in. + 1.5in. STS (158mm + 38mm STS), 5.6in. +
0.75in. STS (142mm + 19mm STS)
Fore and aft transverse bulkheads: 11.3in.–8.5in. + 0.625in. STS (287–216mm + 16mm STS)
Main artillery turrets: front 17in. + 2.5in. STS (432mm + 64mm STS); sides 9.5in. + 0.75in. STS (241mm + 19mm STS);
rear 12in. (305mm); roof 7.25in. (184mm)
Main artillery barbettes: top to second deck 17.3in.–11.6in. (439–295mm); second deck to third deck 3in. STS (76mm STS);
below third deck 1.5in. STS (38mm STS)
Dual-purpose artillery mounts: 2.5in. STS (64mm STS)
Conning tower: sides 17.3in. (439mm); roof 7.25in. (184mm); bottom 4in. (102mm)
1860 vanilla parts only, 862 physical parts. Low hardware requirements.
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