Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The United States Navy's South Carolina class consisted of two battleships. They were designed independently of but contemporaneously with HMS Dreadnought, and with the same all-big-guns principle as that famous ship, but their construction proceeded so slowly that Dreadnought was commissioned before they were. Ships USS South Carolina (BB-26) USS Michigan (BB-27) General Characteristics Displacement: 16,000 tons Length: 452.8 feet Beam: 80.2 feet Draft: 24.5 feet Speed: 18.8 knots Armament: eight 12-inch, 22 three-inch, two 21-inch torpedo tubes This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.