&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Kearsarge_(BB5),_converted_to_craneship_in_1920._Port_bow,_at_wharf,_09-18-1899_-_NARA_-_535431.jpg) Kearsarge in 1899
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Kearsarge |
| Namesake | USS Kearsarge |
| Awarded | 2 January 1896 |
| Builder | Newport News SB&DD |
| Laid down | 30 June 1896 |
| Launched | 24 March 1898 |
| Commissioned | 20 February 1900 |
| Decommissioned | 4 September 1909 |
| Recommissioned | 23 June 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 10 May 1920 |
| Renamed | Crane Ship No. 1, 6 November 1941[a] |
| Reclassified | IX-16, 17 July 1920; AB-1, 5 August 1920[a] |
| Stricken | 22 June 1955 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 9 August 1955 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Kearsarge-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 11,540 short tons (10,470 t) |
| Length | 375 ft 4 in (114.40 m) |
| Beam | 72 ft 3 in (22.02 m) |
| Draft | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Installed power | 5 boilers, 11,674 ihp (8,705 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 VTE engines, 2 propeller shafts |
| Speed | 17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 6 cutters, 2 launches, 1 barge, 2 whaleboats, 1 gig, 2 dinghies, 2 catamarans |
| Complement | 40 officers and 514 enlisted men |
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USS Kearsarge (BB-5), was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy and lead ship of her class of battleships. She was named after the sloop-of-war Kearsarge, famous for sinking the CSS Alabama, and was the only United States Navy battleship not named after a state.
Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Virginia, on 30 June 1896. She was launched on 24 March 1898, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow (née Maynard), the wife of Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow, and commissioned on 20 February 1900.
Between 1903 and 1907 Kearsarge served in the North Atlantic Fleet, and from 1907 to 1909 she sailed as part of the Great White Fleet. In 1909 she was decommissioned for modernization, which was finished in 1911. In 1915 she served in the Atlantic, and between 1916 and 1919 she served as a training ship. She was converted into a crane ship in 1920, renamed Crane Ship No. 1 in 1941, and sold for scrap in 1955.
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