The
United States Navy's
South Carolina class consisted of two
battleships. They were designed independently of but contemporaneously with
HMS Dreadnought, and with the same all-big-guns principle as that famous ship, but their construction proceeded so slowly that
Dreadnought was commissioned before they were.
- Displacement: 16,000 tons
- Length: 452.8 feet
- Beam: 80.2 feet
- Draft: 24.5 feet
- Speed: 18.8 knots
- Armament: eight 12-inch, 22 three-inch, two 21-inch torpedo tubes