USS Pennsylvania BB-38

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Displacement:31,400 tons

Length: 608 feet

Beam:    97'1"

Draft:    28'10"

Speed:    21 knots

Complement:    915

Armament 12 14" guns, 14 5" guns, 4 3" guns, 4 3 pounders, 2 21" torpedo tubes.

Class: Pennsylvania

Keel laid down on 27 Oct 1913 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.

Launched on 16 Mar 1915

Commissioned on 12 Jun 1916, Capt H. B. Wilson in command.

Became flagship of CIC, US Atlantic Fleet on 12 Oct 1916.

Returned to Yorktown, Virginia on 6 Apr 1917.

She did not go to join the British Fleet as she burned oil and only coal fired battleships were sent to Europe