Some Facts of The USS Pennsylvania BB-38
03/10/08
Last Update
19 Admirals on board the USS Pennsylvania, 1935
7 December 1941 - 1946
CAPTAIN CHARLES M. COOKE, U. S. Navy
27 February 1941- 3 April 1942
CAPTAIN THOMAS S. KING II, U. S. Navy
10 April 1942 - 8 February 1943
CAPTAIN WILLIAM A. CORN, U. S. Navy
8 February 1943 - 23 April 1944
CAPTAIN CHARLES F. MARTIN, U. S. Navy
23 April 1944 - 5 June 1945
CAPTAIN WILLIAM M. MOSES, U. S. Navy
5 June 1945 - 5 November 1945
COMMANDER WILLIAM M. KAUFMAN, U. S. Navy
5 November 1945 - 23 January 1946
CAPTAIN CARL H. BUSHNELL, U. S. Navy
23 January 1946
7 December 1941 - 1946
COMMANDER CARL F. HOLDEN, U. S. Navy
24 October 1940 - 1 January 1942
COMMANDER LEO B. SCHULTEN, U. S. Navy
1 January 1942 - 18 August 1942
COMMANDER WILLIAM D. HOOVER, U. S. Navy
18 August 1942 - 29 October 1942
COMMANDER THOMAS H. TEMPLETON, U. S. Navy
29 October 1942 -11 May 1944
COMMANDER CHARLES JACKSON, U. S. Navy
I I May 1944-15 January 1945
COMMANDER CLAREN E. DUKE, U. S. Navy
15 January 1945-3 October 1945
COMMANDER WILLIAM M. KAUFMAN, U. S. Navy
3 October 1945 - 5 November 1945
COMMANDER ALBERT S. FREEDMAN, U. S. Navy
5 November 1945-23 January 1946
COMMANDER WILLIAM M. KAUFMAN, U. S. Navy
23 January 1946
The USS Pennsylvania had a fuel capacity of 1,600,000 gallons of fuel oil, it could circumnavigate the earth (25,000 miles) and take two Destroyers with her and keep them fueled.
Place | 14"/45 | 5"/38 | 5"/25 | 3"/50 | 40mm | 20mm | .50 cal. |
Pearl Harbor | 3200 | 2000 | 56000 | ||||
Attu | 324 | 2285 | |||||
Makin | 403 | 246 | |||||
Kwajalein | 827 | 3065 | 1126 | 187 | |||
Eniwetok | 744 | 1817 | 1180 | 3228 | 372 | ||
Saipan-Tinian | 153 | 476 | |||||
Guam | 1797 | 9543 | 14010 | 1580 | 637 | ||
Peleiu | 662 | 3447 | 802 | ||||
Angaur | 298 | 1680 | |||||
Leyte | 866 | 5507 | 2089 | 2443 | 120 | ||
Lingayen | 640 | 3016 | 2715 | 5477 | 131 | ||
Wake | 140 | 583 | |||||
Okinawa | 13 | 30 | |||||
Totals | 6854 | 31678 | 3200 | 2000 | 21952 | 12728 | 57447 |
Date | From | To | Course |
15 Nov. I943 | Pearl Harbor | Makin | 180 |
19 Nov. 1943 | Pearl Harbor | Makin | 315 |
28 Nov. 1943 | Maneuvering | Maneuvering | 140 |
29 Nov. 1943 | Maneuvering | Maneuvering | 295 |
2 March 1944 | Majuro | Efate | 190 |
6 June 1944 | Efate | Roi | 025 |
21 Aug. 1944 | Eniwetok | Espiritu Santo | 178 |
9 Sept. 1944 | Port Purvis | Peleliu | 285 |
27 Sept. 1944 | Kossol Passage | Manus | 111 |
12 Oct. 1944 | Manus | Leyte | 000 |
29 Nov. 1944 | Leyte | Manus | 133 |
15 Dec. 1944 | Manus | Kossol Passage | 312 |
17 Feb. 1945 | Leyte | Manus | 132 |
23 Feb. 1945 | Manus | Majuro | 082* |
*zigzag
plan actually took the ship across the line three times within a few minutes
SHIPS DATA
Name: Pennsylvania
Hull Number: BB-38
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Virginia
Laid down: October 27, 1913
Christened: March 16, 1915, by Miss Elizabeth Kolb
Commissioned: June 12, 1916
Construction cost: $7,425,000.00 (hull and machinery) $12,993,579.23 (total)
Displacement: 34,207 tons (normal); 37,654 tons (full load)
Length (wl): 600'
Length (oa): 608'
Maximum Beam: 106' 3"
Mean Draft: 28'
Maximum Draft: 33' 6"
Machinery
Total machinery weight: 2,462 tons (with liquids)
Boilers: Five White-Forster, One Bureau Express
Drive: Four Curtiss Geared Turbines; one per shaft
Fuel oil: 5,780 ton capacity
Diesel oil: 75 tons (for boats)
Gasoline: 11.76 tons (for aircraft)
Lubricating oil: 5,000 gallons
Reserve boiler feed water: 323 tons (normal); 392 additional emergency capacity
Potable water: 402 tons
Electricity: Four 400kw, 120/240-volt turbo-generators
Horsepower: 35,000 (shaft hp)
Propellers: Four three-bladed; 12'7" diameter.
Rudder: One, balanced, tapered type. 443 square foot area. Trainable 38" to port and starboard.
Maximum Speed: 21 knots
Maximum radius: 8,500 miles @ 20 knots; 13,600 miles @ 15 knots
Anchors: Three 20,000-lb, one starboard, two Port. 120 fathoms chain to starboard, 180 fathoms to port.
Armor
Hull Armor: 14" amidships, tapering to 8" ends. Entire belt extends 9' above waterline and 8' 6" below. This protected turret magazines and amidships machinery spaces.
Deck Armor: 4" outboard strakes (upper deck); 6" amidships. 2" outboard strakes (lower deck). This protected machinery areas and steering gear from plunging fire.
Funnel Armor: 15" at base of boiler uptakes, tapering to 9" at the upper deck.
Turret Armor: 18" faces; 9" sides, rears; 5" tops; 2" on exposed undersides.
Barbettes: 13" above second deck; 4.5" between second and third decks.
Conning Tower: 16" sides; two 4" layers on top.
Conning Tower tube: 5' inside diameter from third deck to conning tower base; 16" armor above 2nd deck, 6" below.
Longitudinal Torpedo Bulkheads: Two continuous each side from frame 20 to 127; 60 lb treated steel plating outer bulkhead, normal structural steel inner bulkhead. total width of protection each side is 11' 9".
Transverse Torpedo Bulkheads: Four 40 lb treated steel bulkheads outboard the outer longitudinal bulkhead at frames 23, 30, 90, and 120.
Total published armor weight: 8,072 tons
Armament
Main Armament: Twelve 14"/45cal 70-ton rifled guns mounted in four super-firing triple turrets, 2 forward and 2 aft.
Barrel length: 52' 6"
Breech diameter: 46"
Maximum Elevation: Thirty degrees
Rifling Spiral grooves in barrel improved accuracy by imparting a spin to the projectile, giving it a clockwise twist of one revolution for each 37.3 feet of travel.
Maximum Range: 34,000 yards
Maximum Projectile: 1,400 lb armor piercing
Explosive Charge: 31.5 lb (2.25% of projectile weight).
Muzzle Velocity: 2,700 fps
Average rate of fire: 1.5 per minute
Secondary Armament: Twelve 5"/51 caliber single mounted guns; ten within the superstructure deckhouse and two atop it, one on either side of the conning tower. (the latter two were replaced by single mounted 3"/50 caliber guns shortly before pearl harbor.)
AA Armament: Eight 5"/25 caliber single mounted guns, 5"/38 later, located atop the superstructure deckhouse, four to a side; eight .50cal machine guns, located two on each mast, and four on the funnel platform.
Radar: CXAM Fire Control .
Catapults: One powder fired P MK 6 (trainable) on fantail, one powder fired P MK 4 mod I (fixed) atop turret three.
Aircraft: Three 0s2u-2 Kingfishers (low-wing, monoplane, floats under fuselage and each wing).
Ships Complement: 1,731 total (92 officers and warrants; 1,639 enlisted).
Accommodations: 2,037 total (4 cabin officers; 44 wardroom officers; 32 junior officers; 10 warrant officers; 72 chief petty officers; 1,875 other enlisted).
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