BB-62 New Jersey

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Iowa, [BB].

Builder: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Launch date: 07 December 1942.

Commission date: 23 May 1943.

Decommission date: 08 February 1991.

Displacement ( tons ): 45.000 tm standard, 58.000 tm at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 270,43 x 32,98 x 11,6

Main machinery: 8 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 4 x Westinghouse geared turbines ( 212.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 33.

Range ( miles ): 5.000 at 30 knots, 15.000 at 17 knots.

Complement: 1.537.

Guns: 1943: 9 x 405mm/50, 20 x 127mm/38, 80 x 40mm/56, 49 x 20mm/70; 1984: 9 x 405mm/50, 12 x 127mm/38, 4 x CIWS 20mm/76.

Missiles:  1984: AGM: 32 x BGM-109 Tomahawk; SSM: 16 x RGM-84 Harpoon.

Radar: Navigation: 1 x SPS-64; Air Search: 1 x SPS-49; Surface Search: 1 x SPS-67(V); Fire Control: 2 x Mk25, 2 x Mk38.

Countermeasures: Decoys: SLQ 25 Nixie ( torpedo decoy ), 8 x Mk36 SRBOC launchers: ESM/ECM: SLQ-32V.

Helicopter: 1950: Sikorsky H-5; 1968: Gyrodine QH-50 DASH drone; 1982: RQ-2 Pioneer UAV.

Aviation: 1943: 3 x Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes, using 2 x catapults located at stern (removed later).

Callsign: NEPP ()

Comment: Ships of the Iowa class, the biggest battleships in US Navy inventory, saw action in every major combat action carried out by the USA since 1940 until 1992. The USS New Jersey distinguished herself at the Pacific Theater during WWII, Korea War, Vietnam War and the Lebanon War. Nowadays a U.S. Historic Landmark, located at the Camden Waterfront, New Jersey.

Awards (as of 08/02/1991):