#USS Delaware (BB-28)

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View of turrets 3, 4 and 5 of USS Delaware (BB-28) trained to starboard, circa September 1914.

NARA: 45510046

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[wildyoungboy]

[June 18 1919] (The Morgan City dail) Returning from target practice in the Cuban waters of Guantanamo Bay the USS DELAWARE (BB-28) follows the other battleships into New York Harbor. The Victory Fleet also included the USS TEXAS (BB-35) NEW MEXICO (BB-40) OKLAHOMA (BB-37) and NEVADA (BB-36)

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[zerokilleroppel]

Tracing its origins to the 1908 Newport Conference, the New York-class of battleships was the US Navy's fifth type of dreadnought after the South Carolina- (BB-26/27), Delaware- (BB-28/29), Florida- (BB-30/31) Wyoming-classes (BB-32/33). Central among the conference's findings was the requirement for ever larger calibers of main guns as foreign navies had begun using 13.5" guns. Though discussions commenced regarding the armament of the Florida- and Wyoming-class ships, their construction advanced using the standard 12" guns. Complicating the debate was the fact that no US dreadnought had entered service and designs were based on theory, war games, and experience with pre-dreadnought ships. In 1909, the General Board pushed forward designs for a battleship mounting 14" guns. Named USS New York (BB-34) and USS Texas (BB-35), the new ships mounted ten 14" guns in five twin turrets. These were situated with two forward and two aft in superfiring arrangements while the fifth turret was placed amidships. The secondary battery consisted of twenty-one 5" guns and four 21" torpedo tubes. The tubes were situated with two in the bow and two in the stern. No anti-aircraft guns were included in the initial design, but the rise of naval aviation saw the addition two 3" guns in 1916. Propulsion for the New York-class ships came from fourteen Babcock & Wilcox coal-fired boilers powering dual-acting, vertical triple expansion steam engines. These turned two propellers and gave the vessels a speed of 21 knots.  The New York-class was the last class of battleships designed for the US Navy to utilize coal for fuel. Protection for the ships came from a 12" main armor belt with 6.5" covering the vessels' casemates.  

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A great port side view of USS Delaware (BB-28) in harbour, 1909.[6600 × 3649] #HistoryPorn http://ift.tt/2scYVXI

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[davidarkwright]

The beginning of USS Delaware (BB-28) being scrapped. USS Florida (BB-30) is to the left. http://ift.tt/2rCjKyZ

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[adventures-of-the-blackgang]

January 30, 1924: USS Delaware BB-28 at the Boston Naval Shipyard being scrapped.

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[lonestarbattleship]

"USS DELAWARE (BB-28) was one of the shortest lived of all U.S. dreadnought batleships. She was commissioned April 4, 1910. Decommissioned on November 27, 1923, and sold for scrapping on February 5, 1924. She is shown here in January 1925 at Philadelphia, near the end of the scrapping process mandated by the Washington Treaty. Photos of this sort were widely distributed at the time to demon- strate that the United States was complying with the ship-scrapping provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty. The Delaware was the first U.S. battleship with five two-gun 12-inch turrets."

(Naval Institute Collection)

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USS Delaware (BB-28) during the Fleet Review on the Hudson River, New York.

Photographed on October 3, 1911.

NARA: 55167376

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[lonestarbattleship]

New-York tribune, October 31, 1909.

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NHHC: NH 89742

USS DELAWARE (BB-28) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Craft in foreground is probably YW-20.

Date: January 1920

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USS Delaware (BB-28) anchored in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on January 1, 1920

NARA: 512950

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[lonestarbattleship]

USS Delaware (BB-28) tied to a pier at the New York Navy Yard, on October 3, 1911.

NARA: 6038875

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[lonestarbattleship]

USS DELAWARE (BB-28) follows USS TEXAS (BB-35), USS NEW MEXICO (BB-40), USS OKLAHOMA (BB-37), and USS NEVADA (BB-36) returning from target practice in the Cuban waters of Guantanamo Bay, to New York Harbor.

Date: June 18, 1919.

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[lonestarbattleship]

Steam launch (lifeboat) being hoisted on to USS Delaware (BB-28), circa 1913. "This ship was arguably the first true US dreadnought equal to its British contemporary in terms of speed, size, weapons, and protection."

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[lonestarbattleship]

View from the west side of Dry Dock No. 2 at the New York Navy Yard on August 22, 1912. In the background is USS Delaware (BB-28).

Photo No. f542n118

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[lonestarbattleship]

USS Delaware (BB-28), circa 1911.

NHHC: NH 96127, NH 96126

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