BB-55 North Carolina Class
| Specifications | ||
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| Displacement, Design | 35,000 tons | |
| Displacement, standard | 36,600 tons | |
| Displacement, full load | 44,800 tons | |
| Length | Overall Length: 728 ft 9 inches Waterline Length: 660 ft inches | |
| Beam | Waterline Beam: 108 ft 4 inches | |
| Draft | Hull Draft: 26 ft 8 inches | |
| Design Speed | 27.0-28 knots | |
| Power Plant | 4 sets, General Electric Turbines, 8 Babcock & Wilcox Boilers | |
| Fuel Oil Capacity | 7,167 tons | |
| Armament |
9 - 16-inch/45 caliber Mark 6 guns [Main Battery] 20 - 5-inch/38 caliber Mark 12 guns [Secondary Battery] Refitted with various combinations of 40 mm and 20 mm antiaircraft guns replacing smaller caliber secondary guns 8 - 3in guns [Secondary Battery] 16 - 1.1" machine guns [Secondary Battery] 12 - .50-cal machine guns [Secondary Battery] 2 - 21 in torpedo tubes (above water) | |
| Compliment | 2,300 wartime officers enlisted 1,880 total | |
| Builders | New York Naval yard, Brooklyn NY. | |
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