Kearsarge-class battleship

The Kearsarge-class was a group of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1890s. The two ships—USS Kearsarge and USS Kentucky—represented a compromise between two preceding battleship designs, the low-freeboard Indiana class and the high-freeboard USS Iowa, though their design also incorporated several improvements. Their primary advances over earlier designs consisted of new quick-firing guns and improved armor protection, but their most novel feature was their two-story gun turrets that consisted of a secondary 8-inch (203 mm) gun turret fixed to the top of their primary 13-inch (330 mm) turrets. The ships suffered from a number of problems, however, including a tertiary battery mounted too low in the hull and poorly-designed turrets, though the latter were attempted again with the Virginia class in the early 1900s, also with negative results.

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1898 — 1920 Wikimedia, Wikidata
Kearsarge class
2 produced,
pre-dreadnought battleship, United States Navy, Newport News Shipbuilding, United States,

Dreadnought, Illinois-class battleship,

Dreadnought Project page^@

Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

USS Kearsarge ⓘ
1898 Kearsarge-class battleship
USS Kentucky ⓘ
1898 Kearsarge-class battleship

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1898 — 1920 Kearsarge-class battleship

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1900 — 1955 USS Kearsarge

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1900 USS Kentucky

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SHIPPING THE BIG GUN IN THE FORWARD TURRET OF THE BATTLESHIP KEARSARGE

NIE 1905 Ship, Armored - Kearsarge

America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty... (1898) (14784353943)

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source

link	page		Dreadnought Project page^@		Wikidata
object	watercraft	1900	USS Kearsarge	Kearsarge-class battleship, pre-dreadnought battleship, crane vessel	Wikidata
object	watercraft	1900	USS Kentucky	Kearsarge-class battleship, pre-dreadnought battleship	Wikidata
commons	image		SHIPPING THE BIG GUN IN THE FORWARD TURRET OF THE BATTLESHIP KEARSARGE		Commons
commons	image		SHIPPING THE BIG GUN IN THE FORWARD TURRET OF THE BATTLESHIP KEARSARGE		Commons
commons	image		NIE 1905 Ship, Armored - Kearsarge		Commons
commons	image		America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty... (1898) (14784353943)		Commons
commons	image		America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors (1898) (14591437117)		Commons

Kearsarge-class battleship

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