Uss georgia battleship concept. The interwar system of naval treaties allowed the united states to restart battleship construction in the late 1930s. The following month while engaged in gunnery exercises she suffered a turret accident that took the lives of ten of her crew. There was a lot of head scratching around the georgia at the beginning because nobody really knew what she was.
Still im a little confused why world of warships went with a paper ship for their second. A low number of hard hitting guns superior secondaries and a special set of consumables make this paper ship perform very differently from her us counterparts like iowa or missouri. Uss georgia bb 15 was a united states navy virginia class battleship the third of five ships of the classshe was built by the bath iron works in maine with her keel laid in august 1901 and her launching in october 1904.
Its basically an iowa hull with 18 inch guns. Uss georgia was the third ship of the colorado class. Besides hawaii montana is the only of the 50 us.
The completed battleship was commissioned into the fleet in september 1906. Georgia comes packed with six 18 inch guns in three twin turrets an arrangement. Uss georgia a 14948 ton virginia class battleship built at bath maine was commissioned in september 1906.
In late 1942 she would redeploy to the mediterranean fleet while the uss wyoming and uss california. The montana class battleships were planned as successors of the iowa class for the united states navy to be slower but larger better armored and with superior firepowerfive were approved for construction during world war ii but changes in wartime building priorities resulted in their cancellation in favor of continuing production of essex class aircraft carriers and iowa class battleships. Georgia on my mind.
She soon became a unit of the atlantic fleet participating in routine operations and in june 1907 in the jamestown expositions naval review. Georgia is loaded with so many gimmicks that any high tier soviet french or royal navy battleship would be envious of her. The first designs the north carolina and south dakota classes complied with.
After some researches people agreed on the fact that the ship is based on a preliminary design of the iowa class. States never to have successfully bestowed its name upon a battleship and the current uss hawaii is a virginia class nuclear attack submarine.