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1/600 South Carolina Class Cage Masts
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The South Carolina class were the US' first dreadnought battleships; though laid down even before Dreadnought herself, the two ships took four years to complete, while the British vessel was launched in record time. Although proper dreadnoughts, the South Carolinas did not embrace all the new technological changes introduced with the new type of capital ship. They used old triple-expansion steam engines, which produced a lot of vibrations at high speed and could only sustain their maximum of 18 kn for a small period of time; however, the need to pack a lot of guns into a very short hull prompted the US Navy to adopt superfiring turrets, which was a first, and permitted to train the same number of guns on a broadside as HMS Dreadnought but without the weight of an additional fifth turret.
The ships had very limited careers as both very quickly superseded by larger dreadnoughts with far superior firepower. When coming into service in 1910, the first US superdreadnoughts (New York class) was on the drawing board and the British were already mid-way through completing their Orion class, the first superdreadnoughts to enter service, with ten 13.5'' guns, compared to the eight 12'' of the South Carolinas of just a generation prior.
During WWI South Carolina and Michigan were grouped with the predreadnoughts because of their low top speed, and were used for convoy escort. After being demoted to training ships, they were both scrapped under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty.
The ships had very limited careers as both very quickly superseded by larger dreadnoughts with far superior firepower. When coming into service in 1910, the first US superdreadnoughts (New York class) was on the drawing board and the British were already mid-way through completing their Orion class, the first superdreadnoughts to enter service, with ten 13.5'' guns, compared to the eight 12'' of the South Carolinas of just a generation prior.
During WWI South Carolina and Michigan were grouped with the predreadnoughts because of their low top speed, and were used for convoy escort. After being demoted to training ships, they were both scrapped under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty.
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