This made the four Iowa-class, the last battleships ever commissioned in the US Navy. Ultimately the new Montana class were preferred, but also cancelled in July 1943 in favor of completing the Essex-class fleet carriers as the last battleship class ever designed for the United States Navy. Ultimately only the first four were completed, while USS Illinois and Kentucky were laid down, but canceled in 19, and scrapped. The Iowa class were also designed to meet the Second London Naval Treaty's " escalator clause" reaching the limit up to 45,000-long-ton (45,700 t) of standard displacement. They were intended at first as very fast ships, almost battlecruisers, to intercept the Japanese Kongō class while still able to take their place in the battleline. The Iowa class were originally six fast battleships ordered in two batches, in 19. An historical photo for the pinnacle of conventional warship development. The last USN battleships: Iowa class All four Iowas in formation for the first and last time of their carrer. A new post will be dedicated on their cold war career and comprehensive refits in 2023. Note: This post, like the one on the Queen Elisabeth class, is so large in scope, that it will be limited to the construction and WW2 career of the Iowa class. #USN #ww2 #coldwar #iowa #newjersey #missouri #mightymo #wisconsin A fitting end to this year's study of WW2 USN Capital Ships. They fired their last rounds in the gulf war of 1991 and are now preserved as the world's last active battleships. If their fate seemed sealed after 1973, they were unexpectedly resurrected and completely modernized during the Reagan administration to counter the Soviet Kirov class battlecruisers. If their WW2 career was short, they emerged from the reserve to take part in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, putting their main artillery to good use when older fast battleships had long met the scrapyard. They were the culminating point of a standard design worked out since 1934, but built for speed, and the first using the escalator clause to reach a larger tonnage. Iowa class battleships (1942) Battleships (1942-44): USS Iowa (BB-61), New Jersey (BB-62), Missouri (BB 63), Wisconsin (BB 64), Illinois (BB 65), Kentucky (BB 66) The Iowa class battleships were the last built in the US, and memorable ships at more than one title.
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