Mississippi-klasse – Wikipedia
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United States 
Greece The Mississippi -Class Was a class of two battleships (unit line ships) of the United States Navy. Both ships were built between 1904 and 1908. After a few years in the service of the US Navy, it sold the line ships to the Greek navy, where it was on duty until 1932 and 1941. On April 23, 1941, both ships were sunk during the German Balkan field.
The construction of the two ships was approved in 1903. The WILLTIM Cramp and Sons shipyard received the construction contract in Philadelphia, which laid both ships on May 12, 1904 on Kiel. The Mississippi ran on September 30, 1905, the Idaho on December 9th of the same year. The completion dragged on until the beginning of 1908, so that the Mississippi on February 1, 1908, the Idaho Exactly two months later, the US Navy could put into service. [first]
The two line ships remained in the service of the US Navy until the summer of 1914. In July 1914, Greece bought both ships for $ 12,535,275. [2] With the takeover in the Greek Navy, she received Mississippi the new name Lemnos , the Idaho was in Kilkis renamed. [first] [3] The ships took part under the Greek flag on the First World War. The Lemnos was declared in 1932 that Kilkis remained active until 1941. Both ships were sunk in the harbor in April 1941 in front of Salamis during a German plane. [first]
The Mississippi Class was based on the designs of the previous Connecticut -Class, the units of which were built at the same time. However, the two ships were planned about 3000 t lighter than their predecessors, which was mainly possible through a smaller machine system and reduced armament. Were resulting from this Mississippi and Idaho But also slower and weaker than the ships of the Connecticut -Class. [first]
The ships had a length of 116.43 m a width of 23.47 m and a draft of 7.52 m. The displacement was between 13,000 tn.l. and 14,465 tn.l. At first they only had a pile mast behind the front gun tower. In 1909, an eighth grid mast was initially supplemented on both ships and later the front pile mast exchanged for one. [first] The line ships for a short time were equipped with both mast types. [4]
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The ships were equipped with two composite steam engines, each driven a wave and developed a total of 10,000 SHP (7,355 kW), with which it achieved a top speed of 17 knots (31 km/h). The steam was delivered by eight Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers. Up to 1800 t coal were carried as fuel. [first]
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The armament consisted of a variety of different calibers. The main armament was divided into the severity and the half -difficult artillery, with the heavy four guns of the caliber 30.5 cm (12 inches) formed, which were placed on the back and skash in two towers. The half -heavy artillery consisted of eight guns of the caliber 20.3 cm (8 inches) and also eight of the caliber 17.8 cm (7 inches). The 20.3 cm guns were housed in four towers, two each on each ship’s side, and the 17.8 cm guns in casemates below the 20.3 cm towers. [first] Due to this caliber distribution, the ships of the Mississippi -Class counts one of the semi-dreadnoughts. In addition, there were still twelve 7.6 cm cannons, four 4.7 cm guns and two of the caliber 3.7 cm on board. In addition, the ships had two torpedo tubes installed under the waterline in the fuselage with 53.3 cm (21 inch) diameter. [first]
The armor consisted of KC and Harvey steel. The belt armor stretched over the entire length of the ship. It measured in the middle area of the ship (with an extension of 74.37 m or 244 feet) 178 to 229 mm and decreased towards 101 to 178 mm towards the ship ends. The barbeds of the 30.5 cm towers were armored with 152 to 254 mm steel, the towers themselves with 203 to 305 mm. The medium or half-heavy artillery was protected with a 95 to 178 mm thick armor, while the commanding tower was armored with 229 mm. [first]
The target strength of the crew was 744 men. [first]
- Gardiner, Robert (ed.): Conway’s All The World’s Fighting Ships 1860–1905 . Conway Maritime Press, London 1979, ISBN 0-85177-133-5, S. 144 .
- ↑ a b c d It is f g h i j Gardiner, Conway’s All The World’s Fighting Ships , S. 144.
- ↑ Greece pays for two U.S. battleships . In: New York Tribune . July 10, 1914 ( loc.gov [PDF]).
- ↑ In contemporary newspaper articles for sale, the name changes are mentioned as specified in the article (see e.g. Greek Warship Former U. S. Battleship Deserts Government . In: The South Bend News-Times . 4. October 1916 ( loc.gov [PDF]). and Stripped of guns, two former American ships are taken away from Greek king . In: The Daily Ardmoreite . 17. October 1916 ( loc.gov [PDF]). ) and thus also adopted in the literature (next to Conway’s All The World’s Fighting Ships z. B. also with Breyer, see Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905-1970 . J. F. Lehmanns publisher, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-881999-474-2, S. 214 . ). Later newspaper articles, on the other hand, call the allocation allocation (e.g. „Tino“ welcomed on arrival in Smyrna to lead Greeks . In: The Lake County Times . July 15, 1921, S. 5 ( loc.gov [PDF]). ).
- ↑ So also In contemporary photos see.
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