USS Kearsarge was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. She was launched on 24 March 1898, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow, and commissioned on 20 February 1900. Between 1903 and 1907 she served in the North Atlantic Fleet, and from 1907 to 1909 she sailed as part of the Great White Fleet. In 1909 she was decommissioned for modernization, which was finished in 1911. She served as a training ship between 1916 and 1919, and was converted into a crane ship in 1920, renamed Crane Ship No. 1 in 1941, and sold for scrap in 1955.
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USS Kearsarge was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. She was launched on 24 March 1898, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow, the wife of Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow, and commissioned on 20 February 1900. Between 1903 and 1907 she served in the North Atlantic Fleet, and from 1907 to 1909 she sailed as part of the Great White Fleet. In 1909 she was decommissioned for modernization, which was finished in 1911. She served as a training ship between 1916 and 1919, and was converted into a crane ship in 1920, renamed Crane Ship No. 1 in 1941, and sold for scrap in 1955. She is the only U.S. Navy battleship not named after a state, and the first ship of the United States Navy to be named by act of Congress. The ship’s waterline armor belt was 5–16. 5 inches thick and the main gun turrets were protected by 15–17 inches of armor, while the secondary turrets had 6–11 inches of armor.
The barbettes were 12. 5–15 inches Thick, while the conning tower had 10 inches ofArmor was made of harveyized steel. She had a displacement of 11,540 short tons, an overall length of 375 feet 4 inches, a beam of 72 feet 3 inches and a draft of 23 feet 6 inches. The two 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines and five Scotch boilers, produced a total of 11 674 indicated horsepower, and gave a maximum speed of 16. 816 knots. Kearsearge was manned by 40 officers and 514 enlisted men, a total crew of 554 crew. Kearcearge had two double turrets, with two 13 in 35 caliber guns and two 8 in 40 caliber guns each, stacked in two levels. In addition to these guns, the ship carried twenty 6-pounder guns, four. 30 in machine guns, and four 18 inch torpedo tubes.
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