The London Naval Treaty of 1936 was intended to preserve the battleship size limitation at 35000 tons and to restrict the size of battleship gun size to 14". In retrospect, it's hard to see how the latter mattered; as long as the 35000 ton frame...
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USS Guam (CB-2) came about through a curious set of circumstances. Early in World War II, the United States received intelligence suggesting that Japan was building a class of 18000.
Dreadnought was the first modern battleship completed, but not the first designed. That honor went to a pair of American battleships, South Carolina and Michigan. Larger only than the Espana.
USS Idaho (BB-24) was obsolete by the time she was commissioned. Designed as a smaller, cheaper alternative to the Connecticut class, Idaho and her sister Mississippi had the misfortune to be almost exact contemporaries of Dreadnought. While Dreadnought displaced 19000 tons and carried 10 12"...
USS New York (BB-34) was the ninth dreadnought battleship built for the US Navy. Commissioned in April of 1914, New York displaced 27000 tons, could make 21 knots, and carried.
The first USS Louisiana (BB-19) was a vessel of no great note. Commissioned in 1906, Louisiana was one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships. The completion of the British Dreadnought in.