KILKIS ( FORMER USS MISSISSIPPI ) IN DOCK 19

KILKIS A GREEK BATTLESHIP 1905 ( FORMER USS MISSISSIPPI )

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: Kilkis
Namesake: Battle of Kilkis-Lahanas
Laid down: 12 May 1904
Launched: 30 September 1905
Commissioned: 22 July 1914
Fate: Sunk on 23 April 1941 near Salamis.
Status: Salvaged in the 1950s
Notes: previously USS Mississippi (BB-23)

General characteristics

Class and type: Mississippi-class battleship

Displacement:

Design: 13,000 long tons (13,000 t)
Full load: 14,465 long tons (14,697 t)

Length: 382 ft (116.4 m)
Beam: 77 ft (23.5 m)
Draft: 24 ft 8 in (7.5 m)

Installed power: 10,000 ihp (7,500 kW)

Propulsion:

2 × Triple-expansion reciprocating engines
8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Speed: 17-knot (31 km/h; 20 mph) maximum

Crew: 744

Armament:

4 × 12-inch (305 mm) guns
8 × 8-inch (203 mm) guns
8 × 7-inch (178 mm) guns
12 × 3-inch (76 mm) guns
6 × 3-pounder guns
2 × 1-pounder guns
2 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

Armor:

Belt: 9 in (229 mm)
Turrets: 12 in (305 mm)
Conning tower: 9 in (229 mm)

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