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{{Ship

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| name=''Connecticut''-class

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| image=H59575.jpg

!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy  no-repeat scroll top left;"|''Connecticut''-class

| caption=

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| flag-raw=[[File:48 star flag.png|40px]] [[Image:US Naval Jack 48 stars.png|30px]]

!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career

| flag-caption=

!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:45 star jack.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]

| owner=United States Navy

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| built=

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| authorized=4 March 1914

| Class:

| keellaid=16 March 1914

| ''Connecticut''

| launched=19 June 1915

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| commissioned=''Connecticut''<br/>''Louisiana''<br/>''Vermont''<br/>''Kansas''<br/>''Minnesota''<br/>''New Hampshire''

| Ordered:

| retired=

| Fiscal Years 1903-1905

| status=Scrapped by 1924

| type=Battleship

| Completed and commissioned:

| displ=16,000 t

| ''Connecticut'', ''Louisiana'', ''Vermont'', ''Kansas'', ''Minnesota'', ''New Hampshire''

| length=456 ft

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| beam=78 ft 10 in

! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics

| draft=

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| speed=18 knots

| Displacement:

| test=

| 16,000 t

| armament=four 12"/45 main guns<br/>eight 8"/45 secondary guns<br/>twelve 7"/45 guns

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| 456 ft  

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| 78 ft 10 in

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| 18 knots

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| four 12"/45 main guns in two turrets; eight 8"/45 secondary guns in four turrets; twelve 7"/45 guns in single casemate mountings

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The six ships of the '''''Connecticut''-class''' were the definitive U.S. Navy mixed-battery [[battleship]]s, a type shoved from the pinnacle of naval esteem by the "all-big-gun" [[HMS Dreadnought|HMS ''Dreadnought'']] even before the last four went into commission. However, since it took several years to build a significant fleet of "dreadnoughts", these ships and their immediate predecessors formed the backbone of the U.S. Navy's battle line into the early 'Teens. Five of them took part in the 1907-09 World cruise of the "[[Great White Fleet]]", a striking demonstration of the strategic mobility of their type.

The six ships of the '''''Connecticut''-class''' were the definitive U.S. Navy mixed-battery [[battleship]]s, a type shoved from the pinnacle of naval esteem by the "all-big-gun" [[HMS Dreadnought|HMS ''Dreadnought'']] even before the last four went into commission. However, since it took several years to build a significant fleet of "dreadnoughts", these ships and their immediate predecessors formed the backbone of the U.S. Navy's battle line into the early 'Teens. Five of them took part in the 1907-09 World cruise of the "[[Great White Fleet]]", a striking demonstration of the strategic mobility of their type.