USS Arkansas Historical Stats & Gallery

Class: Dreadnaught

Initial Year of Service: 1912

Crew: 1,063

Length: 562 ft (171.30 m)

Beam: 93 ft (28.35 m)

Draught: 28.5 ft (8.69 m)

Displacement: 26,000 tons

Machinery:

ORIGINAL: 12 x Babcock and Wilcox coal-fired boilers feeding 4 x Parson s direct-drive steam turbines developing 28,000 horsepower while driving 2 x Shafts.

Surface Speed: 20.5 kts (24 mph)

Range: 9,205 miles (14,814 km)

Armament:

1912:

12 x 12″ (305mm) /50 caliber Mark 7 main guns

21 x 5″ (127mm) /51 caliber guns (16 after 1919)

2 x 3″ (76mm) /50 caliber Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns (added 1919)

2 x 21″ (533mm) torpedo tubes

1927:

12 x 12″ (305mm) /50 caliber Mark 7 main guns

16 x 5″ (127mm) /51 caliber guns

8 x 3″ (76mm) /50 caliber Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns (added 1919)

1942:

12 x 12″ (305mm) /50 caliber Mark 7 main guns

6 x 5″ (127mm) /51 caliber guns (16 after 1919)

10 x 3″ (76mm) /50 caliber Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns (added 1919)

36 x 40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns (nine four-gunned turrets)

26 x 20mm Oerlikon Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns

Aircraft Arm:

3 x Reconnaissance Floatplane Aircraft (1 x launching catapult).

Ship Class:

Wyoming

Number-in-Class:

2

Pictures:

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