South Carolina class battleship

The United States Navy's South Carolina class consisted of two battleships. They were designed independently of but contemporaneously with HMS Dreadnought, and with the same all-big-guns principle as that famous ship, but their construction proceeded so slowly that Dreadnought was commissioned before they were.

Ships

• USS South Carolina (BB-26)
• USS Michigan (BB-27)

General Characteristics

• Displacement: 16,000 tons
• Length: 452.8 feet
• Beam: 80.2 feet
• Draft: 24.5 feet
• Speed: 18.8 knots
• Armament: eight 12-inch, 22 three-inch, two 21-inch torpedo tubes