Moreno (ship)

Overview
Type	Battleship
Shipyard	New York Shipbuilding Co.
Order	1908
Keel laying	July 9, 1910
Launch	September 23, 1911
delivery	March 1915
Removed from ship register	February 1957
Whereabouts	Sold February 8, 1957 to Boston Metal Co. and scrapped in Japan by Hikari Co.
Technical specifications
displacement	Normal: 27,940 t ; Maximum: 30,600 t
length	L pp : 178.3 m ; L overall approx : 181.3 m
width	30 m
Draft	8.5 m
crew	130 officers and 1,000 men
drive	18 steam boilers from Babcock & Wilcox (from 1924/25: oil firing); 2 sets of Curtis geared turbines on 3 shafts; 40,000 shp ;
speed	22.5 kn
Range	7000 nm at 15 kn ; 11,000 nm at 11 kn
Armament	12 × 12 "/ 50 (30.5 cm) ; 120 rounds / gun ; 12 × 6 "/ 50 (15.2 cm) ; 300 rounds / gun ; 16 × 4 "/ 50 (10.2 cm) ; 350 rounds / gun ; 2 × 21 "(53.3 cm) torpedo tubes ; 16 torpedoes ;
Armor	Belt: 254-305 mm; Citadel: 152 mm; Longitudinal bulkhead: 76 mm; Casemates: 159-238 mm; Towers: Fronts: 305 mm; Flanks / ceilings: 229 mm; Back: 76 mm; ; Command post: front: 305 mm; aft: 229 mm; ; Decks: 38-76 mm;
Bunker quantity	4000 tons of coal and 600 tons of heating oil ; from 1926: 3600 tons of heating oil

The Moreno was an Argentine battleship and, next to the Rivadavia, the second ship of the Rivadavia class.

First World War and the interwar period

After its completion in the Fore River shipyard on January 15, 1915, the Moreno arrived on May 26 of the same year at the Argentine naval base in Puerto Belgrano . On the way, the ship and crew attended the opening ceremony of the Panama Canal . The Moreno was assigned to the 1st division of the fleet and performed normal fleet service until 1923.

After a general overhaul in the shipyard, she was a school and training ship until the end of the 1930s. In August 1933, the Moreno , accompanied by three destroyers, brought the Argentine President Agustín Pedro Justo on his state visits to Uruguay and Brazil . In 1937 the Moreno paid visits to European fleets together with the Rivadavia and returned to Argentina after a long journey via Madeira.

World War II and post-war period

When the Second World War broke out, the battleship was again in Brazil and could only start the hasty journey home under destroyer protection. Throughout the war, she either patrolled the South Atlantic or was in port. During her entire active time, the Moreno was not involved in a single combat action and only shot grenades during various target practice.

In 1949 the ship was decommissioned and from then on served as a residential ship. In 1955 it became a prison hulk and a year later it was removed from the fleet list. In 1957, the battleship was sold to the Boston Metals Co. for US $ 2,469,660 and towed to Japan - at that time the longest towed trip - to be scrapped.

literature

Mike J. Whitley: Battleships of World War II . Motorbuch Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-613-02289-3 .