Battleships: Florida Class

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Florida Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Utah pictured in South Boston Drydock, May 4th, 1929.
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Thanks Brian , a great view of the Hull profile , and its construction :)
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They do tend to look quite HUGE and imposing from this type of view!! :o

Here we see big, bigger and HUGE!! DFO
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Sure does Dennis , and nowadays its all done on hydraulic platforms and sprayed rather than brushed on whilst balancing precariously off a board on a rope thrown over the side :o

Thanks for sharing those with us all .
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USS Utah pictured c1912,she was the second and final member of the Florida Class of Dreadnought Battleships. Utah was built at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, laid down in March 1909 and launched in December of that year. She was completed in August 1911, and boasted a main battery of ten 12-inch guns in five twin gun turrets.
Utah and Florida were the first ships to arrive during the United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution. The two Battleships sent ashore a landing party that began the occupation of the city. After the American entrance into World War I, Utah was stationed in Bantry Bay, Ireland, where she protected convoys from potential German surface raiders. Throughout the 1920s, she conducted numerous training cruises and fleet manoeuvers, and carried dignitaries on tours of South America twice, in 1924 and 1928.
In 1931, Utah was demilitarized and converted into a Target Ship and re-designated as AG-16, in accordance with the terms of the London Naval Treaty signed the previous year. She was also equipped with numerous Anti-Aircraft guns of different types to train gunners for the fleet. She served in these two roles for the rest of the decade, and late 1941 found the ship in Pearl Harbor. She was in port on the morning of December 7th, and in the first minutes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was hit by two torpedoes, which caused serious flooding. Utah quickly rolled over and sank; the vast majority of her crew were able to escape, but 64 men were killed in the attack. The wreck remains in the harbor, and in 1972, a memorial was erected near the ship.
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Lead Ship,Battleship USS Florida pictured in 1928.
She had one sister ship, Utah. Florida was laid down at the New York Navy Yard in March 1909, launched in May 1910, and commissioned into the US Navy in September 1911. She was armed with a main battery of ten 12-inch guns and was very similar in design to the preceding Delaware-Class Battleships.
Florida was one of the first ships to arrive during the United States occupation of Veracruz in early 1914, and part of her crew joined the landing party that occupied the city. She was assigned to United States Battleship Division 9 after the American entrance into World War I in April 1917; the division was sent to Europe to reinforce the British Grand Fleet. During the war, Florida and the rest of her unit, reassigned as the 6th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet, conducted patrols in the North Sea and escorted convoys to Norway. She saw no action against the German High Seas Fleet, however.
Florida returned to normal peacetime duties in 1919. She was heavily modernized in 1924–1926, including a complete overhaul of her propulsion system. She remained in service until 1930, when the London Naval Treaty was signed. Under the terms of the treaty, Florida and Utah were removed from active service. Therefore, Florida was decommissioned in 1931 and scrapped the next year in Philadelphia.
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The END! (rear end..) ;) DFO
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Dreadnought Battleship USS Florida pictured at Pier 5,Charlestown Navy Yard Shipyard,Boston,
January 1929.
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Pier D under construction at Brooklyn Navy Yard seen with Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship USS Florida in the background fitting out,January 5th 1911.
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Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship USS Florida pictured c1911.
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