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| Rivadavia class battleship |
| Class Overview |
| Class Type: |
Battleship |
| Class Name: |
Rivadavia |
| Preceded By: |
Independencia class |
| Succeeded By: |
None |
| Ships of the Class: |
Rivadavia, Moreno |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
27,940 tons |
| Length: |
594.5 ft (181.2 m) |
| Beam: |
98.5 ft (30.0 m) |
| Draft: |
27.5 ft (8.4 m) |
| Propulsion: |
40,000 horsepower steam turbines |
| Speed: |
23 knots (43 km/h) |
| Range: |
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| Complement: |
1130 |
| Armament: |
12 × 12 in guns,(mounted in six twin turrets—two forward, two aft, two wing turrets), 12 × 6 in guns, 16 × 4 in guns |
| Armor: |
Belt: 11 in, Turrets: 12 in |
The Rivadavia class was a class of two battleships of the Argentine Navy , the ARA Rivadavia and the ARA Moreno. Argentina's response to Brazil's Minas Gerais class of two ships during the period of naval competition in South America prior to World War I, they were equal in firepower to the Minas Gerais class, but were larger, faster, and carried more armor. The only foreign battleships built in the United States, they were Argentina's first and only Dreadnought-type battleships. They were also the only American-built dreadnoughts to feature wing turrets—all US Navy dreadnoughts had all turrets on the center line. They both entered service in 1915 and were decommissioned in 1957.
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