USS Kearsarge (BB-5)
USS Kearsarge (BB-5) was a battleship that the United States Navy entered its fleet on February 20, 1900. She was also the lead ship of her class of battleships. She was the only battleship of the United States Navy not named after a state of the Union, but after the sloop-of-war Kearsarge.
She first served in the North Atlantic Fleet and after modernization, she finished her service in the Army, eventually as a training ship.
technical parameters USS Kearsarge (BB-5)
| Name | USS Kearsarge |
| Builder | Newport News SB&DD |
| Awarded | 2 January 1896 |
| Laid down | 30 June 1896 |
| Launched | 24 March 1898 |
| Commissioned | 20 February 1900 |
| Decommissioned | 4 September 1909 |
| Recommissioned | 23 June 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 10 May 1920 |
| Stricken | 22 June 1955 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 9 August 1955 |
| Class and type | Kearsarge-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Length | 375 ft 4 in (114.40 m) |
| Beam | 72 ft 3 in (22.02 m) |
| Draft | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Displacement | 11,540 short tons (10,470 t) |
| Propulsion | 2 VTE engines, 2 propeller shafts |
| Installed power | 5 boilers, 11,674 ihp (8,705 kW) |
| Boats & landing craft carried |
6 cutters, 2 launches, 1 barge, 2 whaleboats, 1 gig, 2 dinghies, 2 catamarans |
| Speed | 17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h) |
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| Complement | 40 officers and 514 enlisted men |
USS Kearsarge (BB-5)
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