Battleships of the USN post WW!

[Ivo]

Hi

I was wondering what were the elite formations of the US Battleship Fleet post WW1???

[onefast93z28]

What exactly do you mean? The USN mixes up ships into different task forces and fleets all the time, tio my knowledge, there was never an seperate "elite fleet" of battleships or any other ships in the USN.

[Seiyuuki]

Great White Fleet is the closet thing I am aware of that fit your search.

Four squadrons of USN battleships, a total of sixteen battleships from the Atlantic Fleet, circumnavigated the world from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 under the order of President Theodore Roosevelt to show U.S. naval power and diplomatic this and that.

[Ivo]

Thanks for that about the White Fleet. But what I after was that which ship and/or unit was the best or in basketball parlence the "go to" ship

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

Probably the USS Arizona and USS Pennsylvania.

They were fine ships, 26,000 odd tonnes triple 14inch turrets, a lot of 5 inch guns. In terms of firepower they were fairly strong. But compared to the best British and German designs they were far outclassed. They were however compared to any “potential” enemy at the time more then suitable.

England and Germany were playing a game of ner ner my balls are bigger then yours and no country was going to influence what they were doing.

HMS Hood built in 1919 was the largest warship and arguably the most powerfull warship afloat up until the start of WW2 and that came in at 50 odd thousand tonnes. Even by the start of WW1 any British and German designs were rarely under the 25,000 tonne mark and by the end of ww1 designs were approaching 50,000 tonnes.

Even by WW2 America was still playing catch up in naval technology in more or less all fields of naval technology.

[baboon6]

Actually the Tennessee and Colorado class BBs were regarded as fairly significant improvements on the preceding Pennsylvanias and New Mexicos. Both displaced about 35 000 tons full load.

http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/battleships/us_dr.htm

[Kaplanr]

Did the Panama Canal size requirement limit he sizes of US ships vis-a-vis the other powers, or just an inherent American approach to design? I remember reading and hearing that relative to the RN, IJN and German navy, US ships were more comfortable and to degree more efficient. By comfort I don't mean soft bunks and hot showers, but rather better provision for fresh foods, refrigeration, food storage and prep as well as operating theaters.

Wasn't it the RN that didn't go to closed turrets on destroyers until 1942 or later?