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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 9 March 1909 |
| Launched: | 23 December 1909 |
| Commissioned: | 31 August 1911 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 September 1944 |
| Fate: | fatally damaged during Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Struck: | 13 November 1944 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 21,825 t |
| Length: | 521.5 ft (159 m) |
| Beam: | 88.3 ft (26.9 m) |
| Draft: | 28.3 ft (8.6 m) |
| Speed: | 20.75 knots (38 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,041 officers and men |
| Armament: | 10 × 12 in (305 mm) guns, 16 × 5 in (127 mm) guns, 2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Utah (BB-31), a Florida-class dreadnought battleship, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. state of Utah. She was later converted to a mobile target and redesignated AG-16.
Her keel was laid down on 9 March 1909 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. She was launched on 23 December 1909 sponsored by Miss Mary Alice Spry, daughter of Governor William Spry of Utah, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 31 August 1911 with Captain William S. Benson in command.
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