USS Idaho BB-42

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
New York Shipbuilding Corp.
Camden, New Jersey
Hull Number:
Battleship #42
BB-42 (July 17, 1920)
Ordered:
November 9, 1914
Commissioned:
March 24, 1919
Keel Laid:
January 20, 1915
Decommissioned:
July 3, 1946
Launched:
June 30, 1917
Stricken:
September 16, 1947
Fate:
Sold Oct. 31, 1947 to Lipsett Inc. New York City and scrapped in Newark, NJ. 1947-48.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
624'
Engines:
4 Parsons single reduction geared steam turbines
Beam:
97' 5" (106' over blisters)
Boilers:
9 Babcock & Wilcox (oil fired)
Draft:
34'
Shafts:
4
Displacement:
33,400 std. / 39,997 full
SHP:
32,000
Speed:
21 knots
Crew:
2,116
Range:
N/A


Main and secondary Armament
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
12
14"/50 (356mm)
4 triple turrets
24,000 yards @ 15° (13.6 miles)
with 1,400 lb. armor piercing shell
22
5"/51 (127mm)
single mounts
18,800 yards @ 25° (10.6 miles)
with 50 lb. armor piercing shell
2
21" (533mm)
torpedo tubes
submerged
up to 15,000 yards @ 27 knots
500 lb. TNT warhead


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 22, 2007