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Pennsylvania Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
CA6 California / San Diego	U	7th May 1902	28th April 1904	1st August 1907
CA7 Colorado / Pueblo	C	25th April 1901	25th April 1903	19th January 1905
CA8 Maryland / Frederick	N	29th October 1901	12th September 1903	18th April 1905
CA4 Pennsylvania / Pittsburgh	C	7th August 1901	22nd August 1903	9th March 1905
CA9 South Dakota / Huron	U	30th September 1903	21st July 1904	27th January 1908
CA5 West Virginia / Huntington	N	16th September 1901	18th April 1903	23rd February 1905

Builders:
C : Cramp, Philadelphia, United States
N : Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, United States
U : Union Iron Works, San Francisco, United States

Dimensions:
504' x 69' 6" x 24' / 153.61m x 21.21m x 7.31m

Displacement:
13680 tons std / 15100 tons max

Complement:
829

Armament:
4 x 8"/40 Mk5 guns in twin turrets
14 x 6"/50 Mk6 guns in single casemates
18 x 3"/50 guns in single mountings
12 x 3pdr guns in single mountings
2 x 1pdr guns in single mountings
2 x 18" torpedo tubes submerged

Aircraft Facilities:
None provided

Armour:
Belt: 3.5" - 6"
Deck: 1.5" - 4"
C.T.: 9"
8" Turrets: 1.5" - 6.5"

Powerplant:
Sixteen Babcock & Wilcox boilers were fitted with two vertical triple expansion engines providing a total of 23000ihp on two shafts. Maximum speed was 22kts and maximum fuel load was 1825 - 2075 tons coal.

Pennsylvania and Colorado were fitted with 32 Niclausse boilers instead.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
None

Sonar:
None

Other:
N/A

Miscellaneous: