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USS South Dakota (BB-57) was the lead vessel of the four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, the South Dakotas were able to take advantage of a treaty clause that allowed them to increase the main battery to 16-inch (406 mm) guns.
Shipwreck 3: Land Tortoise: New York 5 August 1998: Shipwreck 4: Maple Leaf: Florida 12 October 1994: Shipwreck 5: USS Monitor: North Carolina 23 June 1986: Shipwreck 6: Truk Lagoon Underwater Fleet, Truk Atoll: Micronesia: 4 February 1985: Shipwrecks 7: USS Utah: Hawaii 5 May 1989: Shipwreck
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Alaska Ranger United States 23 March 2008 A factory ship that flooded and sank off Unalaska: Al-Ki: 1 November 1917 A passenger steamer, wrecked on Point Augusta.
The Twelvemile Island Ship Graveyard Historical and Archaeological District is a shipwreck site in the Mobile River near Mobile, Alabama, United States.The collection of five wrecks – one large, potentially three-masted ship; three barges; and an unidentified ship – are part of a ship graveyard.
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The first USS South Dakota (ACR-9/CA-9), also referred to "Armored Cruiser No. 9", and later renamed Huron, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser.. South Dakota was laid down on 30 September 1902 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, she was launched on 21 July 1904; sponsored by Grace Herreid, daughter of Charles N. Herreid, Governor of South Dakota, and ...
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Dakota was originally assessed at 20,714 GRT and 13,306 NRT and had deadweight of approximately 19,000. [1] The vessel had a steel hull, and two triple-expansion steam engines of combined power of 2,565 nhp , with cylinders of 29-inch (74 cm), 51-inch (130 cm) and 89-inch (230 cm) diameter with a 57-inch (140 cm) stroke , that drove two screw ...