The three Indiana-class battleships were the first modern battleships to be built by the United States Navy. 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. However, despite their low freeboard, they gave good service in the Spanish-American War and for over a decade afterward, until dreadnought battleships began to come into the fleet in numbers.
Description
- Displacement: 10,288 tons
- Length: 350 ft 11 in
- Beam: 69 ft 4 in
- Draft: 24 ft
- Propulsion:
- Engines: Two vertical inverted triple expansion engines
- Shafts: 2
- Power: 9,000 shp
- Complement: 473
- Armor:
- Belt: 18 inches (460 mm)
- Turret: 15 inches (380 mm)
- Tower: 10 inches (250 mm)
- Deck: 3 inches (76 mm)
- Armament:
- Main guns: 4 × 13-inch (330 mm) guns
- Secondary guns: 8 × 8-inch (203 mm) guns and 4 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns
- Light guns: 20 × 6 pounder guns and 6 × 1 pounder guns
Ships in class
Philippine-American War, Asiatic Fleet
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