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NR | Double Size Battleships Proposed In Navy Program Here is how one of the proposed 65,000-ton battleships would encompass one of the navy's largest modern warships now in service, the half-as-heavy Colorado (BB-45). Five super-battleships, to displace 65,000 tons when fully armed and loaded, are reported included in current naval appropriations | Image and text provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC. Photo & text by The Wilmington Morning Star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 24 March 1941, FINAL EDITION, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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108k | Artist's conception of the correct scale between the Iowa class (BB-61 / 66) and the Montana class (BB-67 / 71). | Photo courtesy of deviantart.com via Bryan Fisher. | ||
56k | Model representing the preliminary design, circa 1940-41. Photographed circa 1943. | Photo # NH 44529, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
62k | Artist's conception of the Montana class (BB-67 / 71) whose construction was cancelled on 21 July 1943. This artwork depicts the ship fitted with a heavy battery of anti-aircraft guns, as would have been the case had she been completed. | Photo # NH 61246, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
54k | Model photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 26 November 1941. It represents the ship with details somewhat changed from the preliminary design seen in the previous photo. | Photo # NH 93912, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
75k | Model photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 26 November 1941. It represents the ship with details somewhat changed from the preliminary design seen in the previous photo. | Photo # NH 93913, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
63k | Model photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 26 November 1941. It represents the ship with details somewhat changed from the preliminary design seen in Photo #2. | Photo # NH 93914, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
56k | Large official model of this abortive class of battleship, photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 7 October 1944. Construction of the five ships of the class had been cancelled in July 1943. | Photo # USN 1144964, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
57k | Battleship Study, BB 65 - Scheme 1 and BB 61-64 (Inclusive). Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board comparing the outboard profile (including superstructure) of the Iowa class (BB-61 / 66) battleships with the hull profile of the Montana class (BB-67 / 71). This plan is dated 9 July 1940 and shows the Iowa class (BB-61 / 66) outboard profile in solid lines and the hull of the in Montana class (BB-67 / 71) dashed lines. At the time, the Montana class (BB-67 / 71) was planned to begin with hull number BB-65, rather than BB-67 as it became after two more Iowa's were ordered as BB-65 and BB-66. Scale of the original drawings is 1/32" = 1'. The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center. |
Photo # S-511-21, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
75k | Battleship Design Study, BB-65 - Scheme 3. Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board as part of the process leading to the Montana class (BB-67 / 71) battleship design. This plan, dated 6 February 1940, is for a ship of 52,500 tons standard displacement and 64,500 ton trial displacement, with a main battery of twelve 16"/50 guns, a secondary battery of twenty 5"/38 guns and a 130,000 horsepower powerplant for a speed of 28 knots. Ship's dimensions are: waterline length 860'; waterline beam 114'; draft 36'. Scale of the original drawing is 1/32" = 1'. Port side 5" gun arrangement is labeled "previous secondary battery arrangement". Starboard side has a "proposed secondary battery arrangement." The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center. |
Photo # S-511-11, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
64k | Battleship Design Study, BB-65 - Scheme 4. Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board as part of the process leading to the Montana class (BB-67 / 71) battleship design. This plan, dated 14 February 1940, is for a ship of 54,500 tons standard displacement and 64,500 tons trial displacement, with a main battery of twelve 16"/50 guns, a secondary battery of twenty 5"/54 guns and a 150,000 horsepower powerplant for a speed of 28 knots. Ship's dimensions are: waterline length 870'; waterline beam 114'; draft 36'. Scale of the original drawing is 1/32" = 1'. Port side 5" gun arrangement is labeled "previous secondary battery arrangement". Starboard side has a "proposed secondary battery arrangement. "The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center. |
Photo # S-511-12, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
56k | Battleship Design Study, BB-65 - Scheme 8. Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board as part of the process leading to the Montana class (BB-67 / 71) battleship design. This plan, dated 15 March 1940, is for a ship of 70,000 tons standard displacement and 82,000 ton trial displacement, with a main battery of twelve 16"/50 guns, a secondary battery of twenty 5"/54 guns and a 320,000 horsepower powerplant for a speed of 33 knots. Ship's dimensions are: waterline length 1050'; waterline beam 120'; draft 35'. Scale of the original drawing is 1/32" = 1'. Port side 5" gun arrangement is labeled "previous secondary battery arrangement". Starboard side has a "proposed secondary battery arrangement." The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center. |
Photo # S-511-13, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | ||
72k | Montana class (BB-67 / 71) inboard profile as designed, 1941. Note the navigational range-finders atop turret No.3 and the bridge. The dashed lines indicate radar antennas as then planned. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | ||
48k | Cross section of the Montana class (BB-67-71) engine room. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | ||
756k | New Hampshire (BB-70) as designed. Line drawing by A.L. Raven. | Text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | ||
124k | Machinery arrangement of the New Hampshire (BB-70) as designed. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | ||
377k | Machinery arrangement of the New Hampshire (BB-70) as designed. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | ||
177k | Artist's conception of the Montana class (BB-67/71) whose construction was cancelled on 21 July 1943. This and the next two drawings represents the Montana (BB-67) in early 1945 in a modified four color Ms-32 Camouflage scheme. | Drawing courtesy of Abram Joslin. |
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236k | Artist's conception of the Montana class (BB-67/71) whose construction was cancelled on 21 July 1943. This drawing represents the Montana (BB-67) in late 1945, MS-22 camouflage scheme. | Drawing courtesy of Abram Joslin. | ||
181k | Artist's conception of the Montana class (BB-67/71) outline. | Drawing courtesy of Abram Joslin. | ||
87k | The New Hampshire (BB-70) would have been built here, at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. Aerial photograph, taken 9 March 1944. Missouri (BB-63) is fitting out in the center. Carrier at the bottom is probably Bennington (CV-20). | Naval History and Heritage Command # NH 93234. | ||
382k | Oil on canvas painting by the artist Wayne Scarpaci showing the probable appearance of the Montana (BB-67) arriving in New York Harbor as flagship US Fleet with Flt Adm Nimitz aboard in the autumn of 1946 after the invasion and defeat of Japan. | Photo and text courtesy of artbywayne.com | ||
371k | A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 December 1991. | USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. |
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