USS New York (BB-34)

USS New York

Ship data flag  United States Ship type Battleship class New York class Shipyard New York Naval Shipyard Keel laying September 11, 1911 Launch October 30, 1912 Commissioning May 15, 1914 Whereabouts sunk on July 6, 1948 as a training target

Ship dimensions and crew length 174.7 m ( Lüa ) width 29.1 m Draft Max. 8.7 m displacement Construction: 27,000 tn.l.   crew 1042 men

Machine system machine 14 steam boilers, 2 4-cylinder compound machines Machine performance 28,100 hp (20,668 kW) Top speed 21 kn (39 km / h) propeller 2 three-winged

Armament 10 × 35.6 cm L / 45 Sk 21 × 12.7 cm L / 51 Sk 2 × 7.6 cm L / 50 flak 4 × torpedo tube ∅ 53.3 cm Armor Belt: 152-305 mm Citadel: 229 mm Armored bulkheads: 152–229 mm upper armored deck: 76 mm lower armored deck: 76 mm Torpedo bulkhead: 38 mm Towers: 356 mm Barbettes: 305 mm Casemates: 178 mm Command tower: 305 mm

The USS New York was a battleship of the United States Navy , named after the US state. Her only sister ship was the USS Texas . The USS New York was the lead ship of the class of the same name . It survived two world wars and two atomic bomb explosions before it was finally sunk in 1948 during target practice.

history

USS Texas bombarded Iwo Jima Island in 1945

On July 25, 1946, a support ship tried to flush radiating particles from the deck of the USS New York after the "Baker" test

Planning and construction

Mexico and World War One

After the Tampico incident in April 1914, the USS New York was used off Veracruz in Mexico in the summer of 1914 to secure American operations. In December 1917, when the USA entered the First World War , she moved to England and joined the British fleet with the American fleet. After the war it was sent to the Pacific and modernized in 1927. Among other things, she received a modern oil furnace for her steam boiler.

Second World War

Until the United States entered the war, the USS New York was part of the patrol in the Atlantic. She then secured convoys there . In November 1942 she supported the Allied landing in North Africa . In 1945 she moved to the Pacific and supported landing operations on Iwo Jima and Okinawa . She was hit by a kamikaze plane near Okinawa .

Nuclear tests

Because of her old age, the USS New York was chosen as a participant in Operation Crossroads , where, as one of several target ships, the effects of nuclear explosions were to be studied. In Bikini Atoll anchored, they survived the tests Able and Baker . It was then examined at Pearl Harbor to document the effects of the explosions. On July 6, 1948, the New York was sunk off Hawaii as a target ship.

Web links

Commons : USS New York  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• NavSource Online: Battleship Photo Archive BB-34 USS NEW YORK (Engl.)
• "USS New York" homepage with history at history.navy.mil (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Banks: "USS New York (BB-34): The Old Lady of the Sea", Turner Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 978-1-56311-809-8 , p. 41