USS Nebraska (BB-14)

Nebraska off of New York City in July 1910
History
United States
Name:	Nebraska
Namesake:	State of Nebraska
Builder:	Moran Brothers Shipbuilding
Laid down:	4 July 1902
Launched:	7 October 1904
Commissioned:	1 July 1907
Decommissioned:	2 July 1920
Struck:	12 July 1922
Fate:	Sold for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type:	Virginia-class battleship
Displacement:	Design: 14,948 long tons (15,188 t) Full load: 16,094 long tons (16,352 t)
Length:	441 ft 3 in (134 m)
Beam:	76 ft 3 in (23 m)
Draft:	23 ft 9 in (7 m)
Installed power:	19,000 ihp (14,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines 12 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Speed:	19 kn (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement:	812
Armament:	4 × 12 in (305 mm)/40 caliber guns 8 × 8 in (203 mm)/45 cal guns 12 × 6 in (152 mm)/50 cal guns 12 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns 12 × 3-pounder guns 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 6–11 in (152–279 mm) Barbettes: 10 in (254 mm) Turrets: 12 in (305 mm) Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm)

USS Nebraska (BB-14) was a Virginia-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, the second of five members of the class, and the first ship to carry her name. She was built by the Moran Brothers shipyard in Seattle, Washington, with her keel laying in July 1902 and her launching in October 1904. Slipping into the water eleven minutes ahead of schedule, her quick thinking sponsor, Mary Nain Mickey, the daughter of Nebraska state governor John H. Mickey, still managed to christen her before she slipped out of reach. The completed ship was commissioned into the US Navy in July 1907. The ship was armed with an offensive battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) guns and eight 8-inch (203 mm) guns, and she was capable of a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph).

Nebraska joined the Great White Fleet after it reached the west coast of the United States in 1908 and continued with it during its circumnavigation of the globe. From 1909 to 1914, the ship conducted normal training and ceremonial duties with the Atlantic Fleet. She was deployed twice to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, in mid-1914 and mid-1916, before being decommissioned briefly in 1916. She was reactivated shortly before the United States entered World War I in April 1917, and was thereafter used as a training ship and later as a convoy escort. After the war, she transported American soldiers back from France, and in 1919 she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet, though she remained in service for less than a year, being decommissioned in July 1920. The 1922 Washington Naval Treaty mandated her disposal, which was effected in November 1923, when she was broken up for scrap.