How big is an Iowa Class Battleship? Nearly as long as three football fields... 888 feet,
to be exact. But, just how big is that in comparison to other United States battleships?
Perhaps you have visited one of the ships pictured below... (If you've visited the USS
Alabama in Mobile, that would be the same size as the USS Massachusetts since they are
both of the South Dakota class.) To give you an idea of the size of these ships, the
photograph below shows the USS Wisconsin moored next to the hulk of the USS Oklahoma that
was salved from the Pearl Harbor attack. The Oklahoma was roughly the same size as the
Arizona. Notice the incredible difference in size between the World War I vintage Oklahoma
and the World War II vintage USS Wisconsin.
Ship Silhouettes of Historic US Battleships
Drawings are Roughly to Scale
BB35 USS Texas
BB39 USS Arizona
BB55 USS North Carolina
BB59 USS Massachusetts
BB64 USS Wisconsin
Notes: BB35 USS Texas is as she appeared in 1942
(Texas Class)
BB39 USS Arizona is as she appeared in 1941 (Pennsylvania Class)
BB55 USS North Carolina is as she appeared in 1942 (North Carolina Class)
BB59 USS Massachusetts is as she appeared in 1945 (South Dakota Class)
BB64 USS Wisconsin is as she appeared in 1958 (Iowa Class)
A
Super-Detailed Line Drawing Silhouette of the USS New Jersey (Image is 3,374 x 643 in size, looks AWESOME when printed and only 32KB to download!)
NOTE: On most monitors, when you download this image, you
only see the blank area in the upper left of the graphic! Shift the image down and to the
right to enjoy this drawing.
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