Indiana class battleship
The three
Indiana-class battleships of the
United States Navy were the first series of modern
battleships to be built. All launched in
1893, they were designed for
coastal defense, being too low in the water to deal well with the waves of the open ocean.
* Displacement: 10,288 tons
* Length: 350 feet 11 inches
* Beam: 69 feet 4 inches
* Draft: 24 feet
* Propulsion:
** Engines: Two vertical inverted triple expansion engines
** Shafts: 2
** Power: 9,000 shp
* Complement: 473
* Armor:
** Belt: 18 inches (450 mm)
** Turret: 15 inches (375 mm)
** Tower: 10 inches (250 mm)
** Deck: 3 inches (75 mm)
* Armament:
** Main guns: 4 x 13 inch guns
** Secondary guns: 8 x 8 inch guns and 4 x 6 inch guns
** Light guns: 20 x 6 pounder guns and 6 x 1 pounder guns
* Designation: BB-1 (
later redesignated Coastal Battleship No. 1)
* Laid down:
7 May 1891* Launched:
28 February 1893* Commissioned:
20 November 1895* Operations: Bombardment of
San Juan,
Battle of Santiago de Cuba,
World War I training missions
* Victories: Spanish destroyers
Furor and
Pluton* Fate: Decommissioned
31 May 1919 for use as a gunnery target
* Designation: BB-2 (
later redesignated Coastal Battleship No. 2)
* Laid down:
25 June 1891* Launched:
10 June 1893* Commissioned:
10 June 1896* Operations: Bombardment of
San Juan,
Battle of Santiago de Cuba,
World War I training missions
* Victories: Spanish cruiser
Reina Mercedes* Fate: Decommissioned
31 March 1919 for use as a gunnery target
* Designation: BB-3
* Laid down:
19 November 1891* Launched:
26 October 1893* Commissioned:
16 July 1896* Operations: 14,000 cruise during the
Spanish-American War,
Philippine-American War, Asiatic Fleet
* Victories: Spanish cruiser
Reina Mercedes* Fate: Decommissioned
17 July 1920, initially for preservation but sold for scrap
15 March 1956*
List of battleships of the United States Navy*
List of battleships*
List of ship launches in 1893*
List of ship commissionings in 1895*
List of ship commissionings in 1896*
List of ship decommissionings in 1919*
List of ship decommissionings in 1920
