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In the early 1910s, a number of senators in the US Congress were lamenting the increasing budgets required by the Navy to stay relevant among the world powers. Most prominent in this group of senators was Benjamin Tillman, apparently feeling rather perturbed at his impertinent Navy asking to build a slightly bigger and more expensive battleship each year compared to the previous; so he asked the Bureau of Construction and Repair to prepare a study for the biggest battleships that could be built (and funded) at the time.
All the sketches of the now so-called 'Tillman battleships' are dated late 1916, and present these common characteristics: a length of 975 x 108 ft (297 x 33 mt) with a 39' 6'' draught (12.04 mt), these dimensions being just a hair under the maximum size of the Panama Canal locks; the upper deck was a single flush deck since the design allowed for it, and casemates were re-adopted for the design, though they were in the process of being phased out since the Navy was not satisfied with them being too wet in the alreay completed standard battleships (Nevada and Pennsylvania classes, while at the time the New Mexicos were in the process of being built). Speed varied from 25 to 30 kn depending on the design; the great variables for the Tillman designs were guns and armour.
Tillman IV had a displacement of 80,000 tons with a lower top speed of 25.2 kn compared to previous designs, but retained the hidious main battery of Design II of twenty-four 16'' (406 mm)/50 guns in four sextuple turrets, and if you are wondering where the rest of the displacement went, the answer is: belt armour. A maximum of 19'' (483 mm) to be exact.
The designs were a dead end in and of themselves, but the triple 16''/50 turrets were later revisited and reused in the South Dakota (1920) design, and the design influences did not limit to that: the speed went up from 21 kn to 23 kn, while armour was thinned to keep the battleships inside the much restricted displacement of 43,000 tons instead of the 70-80,000 of the Tillmans.
All the sketches of the now so-called 'Tillman battleships' are dated late 1916, and present these common characteristics: a length of 975 x 108 ft (297 x 33 mt) with a 39' 6'' draught (12.04 mt), these dimensions being just a hair under the maximum size of the Panama Canal locks; the upper deck was a single flush deck since the design allowed for it, and casemates were re-adopted for the design, though they were in the process of being phased out since the Navy was not satisfied with them being too wet in the alreay completed standard battleships (Nevada and Pennsylvania classes, while at the time the New Mexicos were in the process of being built). Speed varied from 25 to 30 kn depending on the design; the great variables for the Tillman designs were guns and armour.
Tillman IV had a displacement of 80,000 tons with a lower top speed of 25.2 kn compared to previous designs, but retained the hidious main battery of Design II of twenty-four 16'' (406 mm)/50 guns in four sextuple turrets, and if you are wondering where the rest of the displacement went, the answer is: belt armour. A maximum of 19'' (483 mm) to be exact.
The designs were a dead end in and of themselves, but the triple 16''/50 turrets were later revisited and reused in the South Dakota (1920) design, and the design influences did not limit to that: the speed went up from 21 kn to 23 kn, while armour was thinned to keep the battleships inside the much restricted displacement of 43,000 tons instead of the 70-80,000 of the Tillmans.
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