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USS North Dakota (BB-29)
USS ''North Dakota'' (BB-29) was a dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, the second member of the , her only sister ship being . ''North Dakota'' was laid down at the Fore River Shipyard in December 1907, was launched in November 1909, and commissioned into the US Navy in April 1910. She was armed with a main battery of ten guns and was capable of a top speed of . ''North Dakota'' was the first vessel of the US Navy to be named after the 39th state.
''North Dakota'' had a peaceful career; she was present during the United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914, but did not see action. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, ''North Dakota'' remained in the US, training crewmen for the rapidly expanding wartime Navy, and therefore did not see combat. She remained on active duty through the early 1920s, until she was decommissioned under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty in November 1923, and subsequently converted into a radio-controlled target ship. She served in that capacity until 1930, when she was replaced in that role by . In 1931, she was sold for scrapping and thereafter dismantled.
==Design==
(詳細はlong overall and had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced as designed and up to at full combat load. The ship was powered by two-shaft Curtiss steam turbines and fourteen coal-fired Babcock & Wilcox boilers, generating a top speed of . The ship had a cruising range of at a speed of . She had a crew of 933 officers and men.
The ship was armed with a main battery of ten 12 inch/45 Mark 5 guns in five twin gun turrets on the centerline, two of which were placed in a superfiring pair forward. The other three turrets were placed aft of the superstructure. The secondary battery consisted of twenty-one 5-inch/50 guns mounted in casemates along the side of the hull. As was standard for capital ships of the period, she carried a pair of torpedo tubes, submerged in her hull on the broadside. The main armored belt was thick, while the armored deck was thick. The gun turrets had thick faces and the conning tower had thick sides.
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