:USS Kentucky (BB-6)

{{main|Kearsarge-class battleship}}

File:USS Kentucky LOC det.4a14322.jpg

The Kearsarge-class battleships were designed to be used for coastal defense.{{sfn|Crawford|2008|p=12}} They had a displacement of {{convert|11540|ST}}, an overall length of {{convert|375|ft|4|in}}, a beam of {{convert|72|ft|3|in}} and a draft of {{convert|23|ft|6|in}}.{{sfn|Chesneau|Koleśnik|Campbell|1979|p=141}} The two 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines and five Scotch boilers, connected to two propeller shafts, produced a total of {{convert|12179|ihp|lk=in}}, and gave a maximum speed of {{convert|16.897|kn|mph km/h}}.{{sfn|Reilly|Scheina|1980|p=94}} Kentucky was manned by 40 officers and 514 enlisted men, a total of 554 crew.{{sfn|Newhart|1995|p=22}}

Kentucky, like {{USS|Kearsarge|BB-5|6}}, had two double turrets, with two 13"/35 caliber gun and two 8"/40 caliber gun each, stacked on two levels.{{sfn|Friedman|1985|pp=30–32}} The guns and turret armor were designed by the Bureau of Ordnance, while the turret itself was designed by the Bureau of Construction and Repair. The configuration caused the guns to be mounted far back in the turret, making the ports very large. Admiral William Sims claimed that as a result of the gun mounting, a shell fired into the port could reach the magazines below, disabling the guns.{{sfn|Friedman|1985|p=17}} In addition to these guns, Kentucky carried fourteen 5"/40 caliber gun, twenty 6-pounder ({{convert|57|mm|in|abbr=on|disp=or}}) guns, eight 1-pounder ({{convert|37|mm|in|abbr=on|disp=or}}) guns, four {{convert|.30|in|mm|abbr=on}} machine guns, and four American 18 inch torpedo torpedo tubes.{{sfn|Chesneau|Koleśnik|Campbell|1979|p=141}} Kentucky had a very low freeboard, often making her guns unusable during bad weather.{{sfn|Reilly|Scheina|1980|p=92}}

The ship's waterline armor belt was {{convert|5|-|16.5|in|0}} thick. Her main gun turrets were protected by {{convert|15|-|17|in|0}} of armor, while the secondary turrets had {{convert|6|-|11|in|0}} of armor. The barbettes were {{convert|12.5|-|15|in|0}} thick, and the conning tower had {{convert|10|in|0}} of armor.{{sfn|Chesneau|Koleśnik|Campbell|1979|p=141}} The ship's armor was made of harveyized steel.{{sfn|Reilly|Scheina|1980|p=94}}

Kentucky was authorized on 2 March 1895.{{sfn|Reilly|Scheina|1980|p=83}} The contract for her construction was awarded on 2 January 1896,{{sfn|NVR Kentucky (BB 6)}} and her keel was laid down on 30 June 1896 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Virginia.{{sfn|Chesneau|Koleśnik|Campbell|1979|p=141}}{{sfn|Houston Daily Post 25 March 1898}} The total cost was $4,998,119.43.{{sfn|Reilly|Scheina|1980|p=94}} In preparation for the Kentucky{{'}}s christening, the Navy asked Kentucky Governor William O'Connell Bradley to select a member of his family to perform the ceremony. Bradley chose his daughter, Christine, who was attending school in Washington, D.C.{{sfn|Houston Daily Post 25 March 1898}} The Bradleys were a family of teetotalers,{{sfn|Clark|Lane|2002|p=65–66}} so Governor Bradley sent a bottle of water from Lincoln Spring in Hodgenville, Kentucky, for Christine to use during the ceremony.{{sfn|Houston Daily Post 25 March 1898}} Kentucky was christened on 24 March 1898, the same day as her sister ship, Kearsarge.{{sfn|Houston Daily Post 25 March 1898}} Soon after Miss Bradley broke the bottle of water over the Kentucky{{'}}s bow, a delegation from the Women's Christian Temperance Union, led by Frances Beauchamp, presented the governor's daughter with a gift of a silver tray, a water pitcher, and two goblets. The inscription read, "Kentucky Christian Temperance Union to Miss Christine Bradley, as a tribute to her loyalty to conviction in the christening of the Battleship Kentucky with water. March 10, 1898."{{sfn|Clark|Lane|2002|p=65–66}} Kentucky was commissioned on 15 May 1900, under the command of Captain Colby Mitchell Chester.{{sfn|Alexandria Gazette 15 May 1900}}

File:USS Kentucky bb6 in great white fleet.jpg, as part of the Great White Fleet, late August 1908. Kentucky shows the white hull after which the fleet was named.{{sfn|Yarsinske|1999|p=107}}]]

During the summer of 1900, Kentucky was fitted out in the New York Navy Yard.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} On 26 October, during the Boxer Rebellion, she left Tompkinsville, Staten Island for China,{{sfn|The Honolulu Republican 8 November 1900}} passing through Gibraltar{{sfn|The Weekly Messenger 17 November 1900}} and the Suez Canal.{{sfn|The San Francisco Call 22 December 1900}} On 5 February 1901 she arrived at Manila,{{sfn|The Bee 7 February 1901}} and on 23 March she replaced the protected cruiser {{USS|Newark|C-1|2}} as the flagship of Rear Admiral Louis Kempff.{{sfn|Evening Star 23 March 1901}} Between 1901 and 1904, Kentucky visited numerous ports in China and Japan, including Yantai,{{sfn|The Saint Paul Globe 15 October 1901}} Wusong,{{sfn|The Saint Paul Globe 15 October 1901}}{{sfn|The San Francisco Call 29 October 1901}}{{sfn|Evening Star 3 June 1901}} Nanjing,{{sfn|The San Francisco Call 29 October 1901}} Taku Forts,{{sfn|The Washington Times 24 July 1902}} Hong Kong,{{sfn|Evening Star 14 November 1901}} Xiamen,{{sfn|Evening Star 3 June 1901}} Nagasaki,{{sfn|The Washington Times 29 June 1902}} Kobe,{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} and Yokohama.{{sfn|The Washington Times 13 April 1902}} In 1902, Kentucky became the flagship of Rear Admiral Frank Wildes, although he moved his flag to the distilling ship {{USS|Rainbow|AS-7|2}} on 12 April 1902.{{sfn|The Washington Times 13 April 1902}} In November 1902, she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans.{{sfn|Evening Bulletin 8 November 1902}}

On 13 March 1904 she sailed from Manila, passing through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar, and arriving at New York City on 21 May.{{sfn|Daily Public Ledger 26 May 1904}} After receiving upgrades at the New York Navy Yard, including the addition of smoke ejectors,{{sfn|Palestine Daily Herald 26 October 1904}} Kentucky joined the North Atlantic Squadron.{{sfn|The Salt Lake Tribune 31 October 1905}} The battleship participated in the welcome of the British North Atlantic Squadron at Annapolis, Maryland, in October 1905.{{sfn|The Salt Lake Tribune 31 October 1905}} During the 1906 Cuban Insurrection, she carried Marines to Cuba, embarking them from Provincetown on 23 September, and landing them at Havana, Cuba, on 1 October.{{sfn|The Sun 26 September 1906}} She remained there until 9 October, and then returned to New England.{{sfn|The Bemidji Daily Pioneer 9 October 1906}} Kentucky attended the Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk, Virginia, on 15 April 1907,{{sfn|Newhart|1995|p=22}} and then participated in exercises off the New England coast.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}}

In 1907, the Great White Fleet was ordered by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to circle the world, as a demonstration of the might of the United States Navy.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=26}} Kentucky was attached to the Fourth Division of the Second Squadron,{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=46}} and was commanded by Captain Walter C. Cowles,{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=177}} while the fleet as a whole was commanded by Rear Admiral Evans, Kentucky{{'}}s former flag officer.{{sfn|Yarsinske|1999|p=107}} On 16 December 1907, the fleet saluted the presidential yacht {{USS|Mayflower|PY-1|2}},{{sfn|Albertson|2007|p=39}} and left from Hampton Roads.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=181}} The fleet then sailed south, passing Trinidad and Rio de Janeiro,{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=54}} and going through the Straits of Magellan.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=66}} From there she passed the west coast of South America, visiting Punta Arenas{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=64}} and Valparaíso, Chile,{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=67}} Callao, Peru,{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=69}} and Magdalena Bay, Mexico.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=73}} The fleet arrived at San Diego on 14 April 1908{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=184}} and continued to San Francisco on 6 May.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=185}} Two months later it arrived at Honolulu,{{sfn|Albertson|2008|pp=90–95}} and from there sailed to Auckland, New Zealand, arriving on 9 August.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=95}} On 20 August, the fleet reached Sydney, Australia, and a week later sailed for Melbourne.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=188}}

Kentucky departed Albany, Western Australia, on 18 September, passing through ports in the Philippine Islands, Japan, China, and Ceylon before traveling through the Suez Canal.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=188–190}} The fleet split at Port Said on 8 January 1909, with Kentucky visiting Tripoli and Algiers{{sfn|Albertson|2008|p=191}} before rejoining the other ships at Gibraltar.{{sfn|Yarsinske|1999|p=109}} She returned to Hampton Roads on 22 February, and was inspected by President Roosevelt.{{sfn|Albertson|2008|pp=191–192}}

File:USS Kentucky, built in Newport News, VA, launched in 1898.jpg, c. 1908]]

As with most of the Great White Fleet ships, Kentucky was modernized on her return.{{sfn|Friedman|1985|p=82}} She was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} on 28 August 1909,{{sfn|Harris|1992|p=489}} and her modernization was completed in 1911, at a cost of $675,000.{{sfn|Friedman|1985|pp=82–83}} The ship received cage masts, new water-tube boilers, and another four 5-inch guns. The 1-pounder guns were removed, as were sixteen of the 6-pounders.{{sfn|Reilly|Scheina|1980|p=92}} On 4 June 1912, she was recommissioned in the Second Reserve, and on 31 May 1913 she was transferred to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in Philadelphia.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}}

She was recommissioned again at Philadelphia on 23 June 1915.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} On 11 September that year, following the United States occupation of Veracruz, she sailed to Mexico, arriving at Veracruz on 28 September. She remained there during the Mexican Revolution, staying until 2 June 1916, except for a visit to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras festival in March 1916.{{sfn|Bogart|2010}} The battleship stopped at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base{{sfn|The Sun 6 June 1916}} and Santo Domingo on her way back to Philadelphia, arriving there on 18 June 1916.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} From July until September, she trained militiamen near Block Island and Boston.{{sfn|The Ogden Standard 25 July 1916}}{{sfn|The Ogden Standard 19 August 1916}}{{sfn|Kentucky Irish American 2 September 1916}} On 2 October Kentucky returned to New York,{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} and entered the New York Naval Shipyard on 2 January 1917,{{sfn|The Sun 3 January 1917}} remaining there until the United States entered World War I.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} She arrived at Yorktown, Virginia on 2 May, and trained recruits along the Atlantic coast, from Chesapeake Bay to Long Island Sound.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} During the war, she trained several thousand men, in 15 groups of recruits.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}}

Kentucky was overhauled at the Boston Navy Yard, beginning on 20 December 1918.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} On 18 March 1919, she left for exercises in Guantánamo Bay, Norfolk, and along the New England coast.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} Between 29 May and 30 August 1919, Kentucky trained United States Naval Academy midshipmen.{{sfn|DANFS Kentucky (BB-6)}} Following World War I, the United States agreed to the Washington Naval Treaty, which was aimed at preventing a naval arms race by limiting the size of the signatories' fleets.{{sfn|Breyer|1973|p=70}} As a result, many old and obsolete ships were scrapped, including Kentucky.{{sfn|New York Tribune 15 January 1922}} Kentucky was decommissioned on 29 May 1920.{{sfn|New York Tribune 15 January 1922}} Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 27 May 1922 and she was sold for scrap to Dravo Corporation on 24 March 1923.{{sfn|NVR Kentucky (BB 6)}}

{{DANFS | https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/k/kentucky-bb-6.html }}

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{{Commons category|USS Kentucky (Battleship No. 6) (ship, 1900)}}

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