Maine Class Battleship (1901)

Three Maine class battleships were completed for the U.S. Navy between 1902 and 1904.

Overview of 3 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Maine	William Cramp & Sons	15 Feb, 1899	27 Jul, 1901	29 Dec, 1902	Sold 1922
Missouri	Newport News	7 Feb, 1900	28 Dec, 1901	1 Dec, 1903	Sold 1922
Ohio	Union Iron Works	22 Apr, 1899	1901	4 Oct, 1904	Sold 1923

Design & Construction

Originally planned as further members of the preceding Illinois class, a new design was worked out to incorporate water-tube boilers, Krupp nickel-cemented armor, and a high-velocity main battery using smokeless powder.

Armament

As Completed

Guns

• four 12-inch/50 caliber
• sixteen 6-inch/50 caliber
• six 3-inch/50 caliber
• eight 3-pounders

Torpedoes

• two 18-inch submerged tubes, six torpedoes

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

• Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
• Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-715-1. (on Amazon.com).
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.