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BB-29 USS NORTH DAKOTA
1920 - 1931

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Delaware Class Battleship: Displacement 20,000 Tons, Dimensions, 518' 9" (oa) x 85' 3" x 28' 10" (Max). Armament 10 x 12"/45 14 x 5"/50, 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 11" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 11 1/2" Conning Tower. Machinery, 25,000 SHP; vertical, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 933.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Fore River, Shipbuilding, Quincy, MA., December 16 1907. Launched November 10 1908. Commissioned April 11 1910. Decommissioned November 22 1923. Demilitarized May 29 1924 and used as a target ship. Stricken January 7 1931.
Fate: Sold March 16 1931 and broken up for scrap.
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BB-29 North Dakota 66k North Dakota (BB-29) is shown at sea during post World War One gunnery practice. Note the searchlight control platform under the searchlights abaft her funnel and the 3-inch guns atop her derrick posts. The small raised range-range finder platform atop the conning tower was unique to this class. The large object on her stern is a battle practice target. A concentration dial is visible on her foremast, and the two supefiring turrets show deflection markings. The pattern of spray shows that the hull secondary weapons could be drenched even in relativley calm weather. Her thick black smoke was characteristic of coal burners. Note also the large armored range-finder (probably of 20-foot base) atop her No.3 turret and the much smaller one (probably of 5-foot base) atop No.4 with a spreader for radio antennas atop No.5. National Archives / USN photo. Text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.
BB-29 North Dakota 260k 1920 picture showing that she still hasn't received her full peacetime boat complement. Visible are life rafts mounted on turrets and on her hull side. Rafts were found, by wartime experience, to be a liability in a battle. They were easily destroyed by shellfire and could contribute to crew casualties with splinters when they were struck and exploded by enemy rounds. USN photo.
BB-29 North Dakota 196k North Dakota (BB-29) in the harbor of Charleston, Massachusetts, 1921. USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-30 Florida88k Florida (BB-30) steaming in line abreast with two other ships of Battleship Division Five, Atlantic Fleet, during an exercise in about 1921. The other ships are Delaware (BB-28) and North Dakota (BB-29). USNHC # NH 93421, photographed by A.E. Wells.
Atlantic and Pacific Fleets49k "Combined Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in Panama Bay, 21st Jan. 1921". Right section (of three) of a panoramic photograph taken by M.C. Mayberry, of Mayberry and Smith, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Among the ships present in this image are (from left to right): Sicard (DD-346), Hatfield (DD-231), North Dakota (BB-29), Delaware (BB-28), Brazos (AO-4), Prometheus (AR-3), Utah (BB-31), Oklahoma (BB-37), Bridge (AF-1), Nevada (BB-36), Schenck (DD-159), Arizona (BB-39), Black Hawk (AD-9), Dickerson (DD-157), Dahlgren (DD-187), Herbert (DD-160), Columbia (CA-16), Cleveland (PG-33), Tacoma (PG-32), Semmes (DD-189) and one other destroyer. 		Photo # NH 86082-C, courtesy of Naval Historical Center, Naval Historical Foundation, D.H. Criswell Collection.
BB-30 Florida96k Florida (BB-30) gives Naval Academy Midshipmen a "taste of salt water" on their annual cruise, during the early 1920s. She is followed by Delaware (BB-28) and North Dakota (BB-29). USNHC # NH 54181.
BB-29 North Dakota 113k Passing through the Galliard Cut, Panama Canal, 15 February 1923. USNHC # NH 73827.
BB-30 Florida99k Florida (BB-30) entering Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia in 1923. She is followed by two other U.S. Navy battleships.
The other two battleships might be the Delaware (BB-28) & North Dakota (BB-29). DANFS records that they made midshipmen cruises to Europe during that time before they were decommissioned later in the fall.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 54180. Photo added 02/10/08.
BB-29 North Dakota 27k Underway, starboard view. Circa 1924. Courtesy of Jon Burdett.
BB-29 North Dakota 84k Reeder, ND newspaper article dated 19 March 1930 concerning the fate of North Dakota's (BB-29) bell. Photo courtesy of Robert Hall via Fabio Pena.
(NISMF)371kA guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
USS NORTH DAKOTA BB-29 History
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