New York class
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| Texas class | |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Identification numbers: | BB-34 to BB-35 |
| Predecessor: | Wyoming class |
| Successor: | Nevada class |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement | 32,600 tons |
| length | 175.00 m |
| width | 29.0 meters |
| Draft: | 8.7 m |
| Power: | 28,900 hp |
| Top speed: | 21 kn |
| Crew: | circa 1042 |
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The New York class , also known as the Texas class , was a class of battleships in the United States Navy between 1914 and 1948. It consisted of two ships, the USS New York (BB-34) and the USS Texas (BB-35) . These were improved versions of the Wyoming class , which now had one turret less to compensate for the higher weight of the higher-caliber guns and the correspondingly larger turrets.
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The New York class was one of those US ship classes that were developed under the impression of having to compete with England. A contemporary development of the Royal Navy , the 1909 Orion class carried ten 13.5 inch (34.2 cm) guns in five twin turrets. The new US battleship class was therefore equipped with ten 14 inch (35.6 cm) calibers.
New York class ships
USS New York
The USS New York was laid down on September 11, 1911 and launched on October 30, 1912. The ship entered service on May 15, 1914. Although she was started and finished later as her sister ship, the class was named "New York" because the ship was first ordered in 1911. Shortly after commissioning, it was used in the course of the Tampico incident off Mexico. She served after the war the US entry in WWI . From 1917 she was used with the Royal Navy. She rammed a German submarine and one of her propellers was damaged. After the war she was modernized several times and was also in the shipyard when the Pacific War broke out . She supported Allied landings in Africa and France, relocated to the Pacific, where she covered the landings on Iwo Jima and Okinawa . Before Iwo Jima, she was hit by a kamikaze flyer. After the war ended, the ship was damaged in Operation Crossroads nuclear bomb test and was finally sunk in the Pacific in 1948.
USS Texas
The USS Texas was laid down on April 17, 1911 and launched on May 18, 1912. The ship entered service with the US Navy on March 12, 1914. Shortly after starting work, the Tampico incident between Mexico and the United States occurred, in the course of which the USS Texas was deployed in the waters off the city of Vera Cruz. After the USA entered the First World War, the ship was sailing in the Atlantic and was badly damaged by touching ground off Block Island in 1917. Until the end of the war in 1918, it carried out a number of missions together with the Homefleet and was extensively modernized after the war. In 1927 she was the flagship of the US Navy. During the Second World War she was initially assigned to escort duties, but supported the Allied landings in North Africa in autumn 1942 and the landing in Normandy in summer 1944. They moved to the Pacific and shelled Japanese positions on Okinawa in support of American landing forces. After the war, in 1947, interested parties worked to preserve the ship, and it was opened to the public as a museum near Houston .
Web links
- New York class on history.navy.mil (English)