USS New York (BB-34)

New York shortly after entering service in 1915
History
United States
Name	New York
Namesake	State of New York
Awarded	1 May 1911
Builder	Brooklyn Navy Yard
Laid down	11 September 1911
Launched	30 October 1912
Commissioned	15 May 1914
Decommissioned	29 August 1946
Stricken	13 July 1948
Identification	Hull symbol: BB-34
Honors and awards	3 × battle star (WW II)
Fate	Sunk as a target ship, 1948
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	New York-class battleship
Displacement	27,000 long tons (27,433 t) (standard) 28,367 long tons (28,822 t) (full load)
Length	573 ft (174.7 m) (o/a) 565 ft (172.2 m) (waterline)
Beam	95 ft 2.5 in (29 m)
Draft	28 ft 6 in (8.7 m) (mean) 29 ft 7 in (9 m) (max)
Installed power	14 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 28,100 shp (20,954 kW)
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines 2 × screws
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range	7,060 nmi (13,075 km; 8,125 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	1,042 officers and men
Armament	5 × twin 14 in (356 mm) guns 21 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns 4 × single 3-pounder 47 mm (1.85 in) saluting guns 2 × single 1-pounder 37 mm (1.46 in) guns 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 10–12 in (254–305 mm) Lower casemate: 9–11 in (229–279 mm) Upper casemate: 6.5 in (165 mm) Barbettes: 10–12 in Turret face: 14 in (356 mm) Turret top: 4 in (102 mm) Turret side: 2 in (51 mm) Decks: 2 in Conning tower: 12 in, 4 in (top)
General characteristics (1925–1926 refit)
Displacement	27,000 long tons (27,433 t) (standard) 32,000 long tons (32,514 t) (full load)
Draft	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) (max)
Installed power	6 × Bureau Express water-tube boilers
Armament	5 × twin 14 in (356 mm) guns 16 × single 5 (127 mm) in guns 8 × single 3 in (76 mm) AA guns
Aircraft carried	3 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities	1 × catapult
General characteristics (1942 refit)
Armament	5 × twin 14 in (356 mm) guns 6 × single 5 (127 mm) in guns 10 × single 3 (76 mm) in AA guns 6 × quadruple 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors AA guns 42 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns

USS New York (BB-34) was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class. Named for New York State, she was designed as the first ship to carry the 14-inch (356 mm)/45-caliber gun.

Entering service in 1914, she was part of the U.S. Navy force which was sent to reinforce the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea near the end of World War I. During that time, she was involved in at least two incidents with German U-boats, and is believed to have been the only US ship to have sunk one in the war, during an accidental collision in October 1918. Following the war, she was sent on a series of training exercises and cruises in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and saw several overhauls to increase her armament, aircraft handling and armor.

She entered the Neutrality Patrol at the beginning of World War II, and served as a convoy escort for ships to Iceland and Great Britain in the early phase of the war. She saw her first combat against coastal artillery during Operation Torch around Casablanca in North Africa, and later became a training ship. Late in the war, she moved to the Pacific, and provided naval gunfire support for the invasion of Iwo Jima and later the invasion of Okinawa. Returning to Pearl Harbor for repairs until the end of the war, she was classified obsolete and was chosen to take part in the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. She survived both explosions, and the effects of radiation on the ship were studied for two years. She was eventually sunk as a target in 1948. She received three battle stars for her service.