The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia: Arkansas, U.S. Battleship (original) (raw)
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| Displacement | 27,900 tons standard displacement |
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| Dimensions | 558'9" by 106' by 31'10"170.30m by 32.31m by 9.70m |
| Maximum speed | 21 knots |
| Complement | 1550 |
| Aircraft | 1 catapult3 seaplanes |
| Armament | 6x2 12"/50 guns10x1 5"/51 guns12x1 3"/50 AA guns9x4 40mm Bofors AA guns2x4, 22x1 20mm Oerlikon AA guns |
| Protection | 8140 tons:11" (280mm) belt11" (280mm) forward bulkhead9" (229mm) aft bulkhead4.75" (120mm) armor deck over boiler rooms5.2" (132mm) armor deck over turbines4.5 (114mm) armor deck over magazines2" (57mm) splinter deck over boilers3" (76mm) splinter deck over magazines5" (127mm) steering side3" (76mm) steering roof6.5" (165mm) casemates12"/8"/8"/3" (305mm/203mm/203mm/76mm) turret front/roof10" (254mm) barbettes6.5" (165mm) uptakes11.5"/4.7" (292mm/120mm) conning tower29'6" (9m) torpedo bulges with 1.5" (38mm) holding bulkhead |
| Machinery | 4-shaft Parsons turbine (28,000 shp)4 White-Forster boilers |
| Bunkerage | 3768 tons fuel oil |
| Range | 5190 nautical miles (9590 km) at 12 knots |
| Sensors | SC radar FC radar |
| Modifications | 1944-12: Secondary armament consists of 5 5" guns; 12 3" guns; 9x4 40mm guns; 2x4, 28x1 20mm guns. |
The Arkansas was the oldest battleship in the U.S. Navy at the start of the war, with a design going back to 1908. She would doubtless have already been scrapped but for the increase in international tensions in the late 1930s. She had been modernized with deck armor but was otherwise completely obsolete. She served most of the war in the Atlantic and was not committed to the Pacific until November 1944.
Arkansas'older sister, class namesake Wyoming, had been converted to a target ship before hostilities broke out, and she was not deemed worth converting back to a battleship.
References
Gogin (2010; accessed 2012-12-1)
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