You know that:
- The U.S. Navy ordered the ship to be built at the New York Navy Yard as early as March 4, 1913, at a price equivalent to approximately 263 374 000 € today.
- Construction took 27 months and on 19 June 1915 she was launched in a ceremony attended by prominent Prescott citizen Miss Esther Ross.
- The ship's designers opted for unusual armouring, which they named "All or Nothing", which meant heavy double armouring of important parts, while other parts of the ship were only lightly armoured, or not at all.
- The USS Arizona has an interesting and sad history. At the end of World War I, it carried US President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. In the 1930s, the ship underwent a major refit and was subsequently assigned to Chester Nimitz's 1st Division based at Pearl Harbor.
- Pearl Harbor is also her final and eternal destination, as the USS Arizona was destroyed during the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941. Today, a memorial to the fallen soldiers is established over the site of the ship's sinking. One of the memorial's rare exhibits is the famous deck bell from the USS Arizona whose sound on December 7, 1941, was an alarm until the deck was hit by an 800 kg aerial bomb.
- To this day, black patches of oil and diesel occasionally appear on the sea surface above the sinking site, and legend says that the ship sheds black tears and will not stop until the last surviving man from the Arizona, Ken Potts (who turns 101 in 2022), is alive.
Technical parameters:
- dimensions: length 185.3 m, width 29.6 m, draught 8.8 m
- displacement 35 381 t (full)
- propulsion unit 12 Barbock & Wilcox boilers, 4 Pärson turbines with a total output of 24 900 kW with power transmission to 4 propellers
- maximum speed 39 km/h
- armour plating 356 mm locally, 76 and 36 mm otherwise
- armament 12 365 mm guns + 22 127 mm guns + 4 76 mm guns (armament 1916)
Vought OS2U Kingfisher observation aircraft on board (2x catapult)
- crew 1050
From the memories of Ken Potts, the USS Arizona's yeoman after the attack on Pearl Harbor:
"I don't know what hell looks like. But I think that morning I was as close to it as I could get."
Assembly instructions
At this point we usually have assembly instructions for you to view. As this is a new feature we will add the instructions as soon as we have them available, but don't worry. You will find a printed manual in each box. Well, if we don't have the instructions for you, we'll at least bring you the following anecdote:
Grandma says to granddaughter.
"You know, Barunka, there's only one true love in every woman's life."
"And who was that with you, Grandma?" The granddaughter asks.
"Sailors!" Grandma replies.
