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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.
Having prepared the four design variants and presented them in late 1916, some bright mind choose Design IV to task the Bureau of C&R to further develop. They came up with two further design variants, Tillman IV-1 and Tillman IV-2, both 80,000 apiece, with 16'' (406 mm) maximum belt armour thickness. Fortunately a hint of sanity prevailed and they dropped the sextuple turrets; however, not content of dropping such a massive amount of firepower, the gun calibre was upped to 18'' (457 mm)/50 instead of the 16''/50 used in all previous designs.
Tillman IV-1 had thirteen guns in six turrets, five twins and a triple, arranged in the same fashion as the Wyoming class (with the triple being Turret 1). Tillman IV-2 instead went for all-triple turrets, but dropped one from the previous total for a final tally of fifteen 18''/50 guns in five triple turrets.
The designs were a dead end in and of themselves, and particularly these further developments went nowhere (the triple 16''/50 turrets of older designs were revisited and reused in the South Dakota (1920) design), although the idea of an 18'' gun popped up again some time in the late 1930s when the US Navy was looking into ideas for countering what was supposed to be the Yamato design from sparce intelligence (40-50,000 tons with 16'' guns), but they only built a single prototype in 1927 for testing purposes, and in the end went with the 16''/50 for both Iowa and Montana designs due to time constraints.
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.
Having prepared the four design variants and presented them in late 1916, some bright mind choose Design IV to task the Bureau of C&R to further develop. They came up with two further design variants, Tillman IV-1 and Tillman IV-2, both 80,000 apiece, with 16'' (406 mm) maximum belt armour thickness. Fortunately a hint of sanity prevailed and they dropped the sextuple turrets; however, not content of dropping such a massive amount of firepower, the gun calibre was upped to 18'' (457 mm)/50 instead of the 16''/50 used in all previous designs.
Tillman IV-1 had thirteen guns in six turrets, five twins and a triple, arranged in the same fashion as the Wyoming class (with the triple being Turret 1). Tillman IV-2 instead went for all-triple turrets, but dropped one from the previous total for a final tally of fifteen 18''/50 guns in five triple turrets.
The designs were a dead end in and of themselves, and particularly these further developments went nowhere (the triple 16''/50 turrets of older designs were revisited and reused in the South Dakota (1920) design), although the idea of an 18'' gun popped up again some time in the late 1930s when the US Navy was looking into ideas for countering what was supposed to be the Yamato design from sparce intelligence (40-50,000 tons with 16'' guns), but they only built a single prototype in 1927 for testing purposes, and in the end went with the 16''/50 for both Iowa and Montana designs due to time constraints.
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