Рет қаралды 3,344
Warship Guide - USS South Dakota BB 49
The six battleships of the South Dakota class would have been powerful and absolutely marvelous ships that would have been the culmination of US battleship design at the time. Unfortunately though, with the cancellation of this class and the moratorium on new capital ships, the US Navy would have to wait almost 20 years before designing and building another battleship, which certainly put them behind when that time came. The South Dakotas can be summarized as the best that never were, at least until the next generation of US battleships came into being during the late 1930s.
South Dakota Class (1939) videos
USS South Dakota (BB 57)
• USS South Dakota - Bat...
USS Indiana (BB 58)
• USS Indiana - The Hoos...
USS Massachusetts (BB 59)
• USS Massachusetts - 1s...
USS Alabama (BB 60)
• USS Alabama - The Migh...
Sources
Friedman, Norman 1985. U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels. United States Navy. 1 July 1921.
www.history.navy.mil/content/....
#history #navalhistory #unitedstatesnavy #usnavy #battleship #dreadnoughts #worldofwarships #worldofwarshipslegends