U.S.S. PENNSYLVANIA, SUPERDREADNOUGHT
Length over all, 608 feet; full-load displacement, 32,567 tons;breadth, 97 feet 1.2 inch;
speed, 21.05 knots; horse power, 29.366; officers 117; bluejackets, 939; marines, 75
Guns: twelve 14-inch 45 calibre* breechloading; twenty-two 5-inch 51 calibre rapid fire;
four 3-inch antiaircraft; torpedo tubes, two 21-inch, submerged.
Cost, hull and machinery, $7,260,000; in commission, June 12, 1916. Burns oil for fuel.
*The Pennsylvania's main guns are 14-inch 45 calibre. Multiply 14 by 45 and the product,
630 inches, gives the length of the gun. Length of any gun may be found in this way.
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