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USS ''Kentucky'' (BB-6) was the second and last pre-dreadnought battleship built for the United States Navy. The Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Virginia laid down her keel on 30 June 1896. She was launched on 24 March 1898, sponsored by Miss Christine Bradley, daughter of Kentucky Governor William O'Connell Bradley. She was commissioned on 15 May 1900. In her twenty years of service, ''Kentucky'' participated in no major combat. Between 1901 and 1904, she served in East Asia, and from 1904 to 1907 she cruised the Atlantic. In 1907, she joined the Great White Fleet, returning in 1909. She was modernized in 1910, but did not operate again until 1915, when she sailed to the Mexican coast, where she stayed until 1916. From 1917 until her decommissioning in 29 May 1920, she served as a training ship. She was sold for scrap on 24 March 1923. == Design == (詳細はoverall length of , a beam of and a draft of . The two 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines and five Scotch boilers, connected to two propeller shafts, produced a total of , and gave a maximum speed of . ''Kentucky'' was manned by 40 officers and 514 enlisted men, a total of 554 crew. ''Kentucky'', like , had two double turrets, with two guns and two guns each, stacked on two levels. The guns and turret armor were designed by the Bureau of Ordnance, while the turret itself was designed by the Bureau of Construction and Repair. The configuration caused the guns to be mounted far back in the turret, making the ports very large. Admiral William Sims claimed that as a result of the gun mounting, a shell fired into the port could reach the magazines below, disabling the guns. In addition to these guns, ''Kentucky'' carried fourteen guns, twenty 6-pounder () guns, eight 1-pounder () guns, four machine guns, and four torpedo tubes. ''Kentucky'' had a very low freeboard, often making her guns unusable during bad weather. The ship's waterline armor belt was thick. Her main gun turrets were protected by of armor, while the secondary turrets had of armor. The barbettes were thick, and the conning tower had of armor. The ship's armor was made of harveyized steel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Kentucky (BB-6)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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