Armored Ship Thursday on Friday

for armored ship thursday this week we have USS Kansas BB21. Kansas was a Connecticut Class battleship one of the last classes of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the USN. she was commissioned in April,1907. Kansas was 456ft. long and displaced 16,000tons. powered by two triple expansion steam engines making 16,500shp and running two shafts and screws the ship could make 18kts. flank speed. the main battery of the ship was four 12" and eight 8" naval rifles. after some shakedown cruises and the like USS Kansas joined the Great White Fleet of USN Battleships in December, 1907 for their famous cruise around the World. returning home in February, 1909 Kansas was engaged in routine duties until WW1. throughout the war she was used for training and escort duty. USS Kansas was scrapped in 1923. our first picture shows the ships band practicing. next is a color postcard picture of Kansas in her WW1 rig with cage masts and grey/gray paint. third is a picture of the Great White Fleet steaming in line somewhere in one of the World's Oceans. the Great White Fleet was like an announcement by the US that we were a world naval power and other major navies now had to contend with that power in case of war. fourth picture is Kansas undergoing full speed trials before acceptance by the Navy. she looked like this for the cruise around the World. and last is the ship again with cage masts, from aft and looking along the starboard side where we can also see the 7" secondary battery in the armored casemates in the ship's side.