USS South Dakota BB 49 - The Original SoDak Class

Warship Guide - USS South Dakota BB 49
The six battleships of the South Dakota class would have been powerful and absolutely marvelous ships that would have been the culmination of US battleship design at the time. Unfortunately though, with the cancellation of this class and the moratorium on new capital ships, the US Navy would have to wait almost 20 years before designing and building another battleship, which certainly put them behind when that time came. The South Dakotas can be summarized as the best that never were, at least until the next generation of US battleships came into being during the late 1930s.
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Sources
Friedman, Norman 1985. U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels. United States Navy. 1 July 1921.
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I can't shake the idea that treaties such as this, didn't prevent or even delay war, but accelerated it's arrival.

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Which goes to prove strict gun laws don't prevent crime

[@jess2690]

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[@acheronstark7149]

Another great video!

[@geoffsokoll-oh1gq]

Adm Beatty made it clear that replacing treaties (such as the one between the UK and Japan) with the limitation treaty was the height of stupidity.

[@jonathonhass4178]

I’ve always thought that our inclusion in the Washington naval treaty was a mistake…a big one. In my opinion, the only country that really benefited from it was britain as they were desperate to maintain their place as “worlds biggest/best navy” and their economy could no longer support that and ours, at that time, would’ve allowed the US to supplant them in Navy size and power. That treaty handicapped the US and really snubbed the Japanese, which pissed them off royally to be treated that way, after being a fellow Ally during WW1, which helped lead the Japanese down the road of “F it! We’ll just TAKE what we want” as they saw that the US and britain were never going to treat them as equals.

[@rickfricchione694]

I thought South Dakota was BB-57?

[@1dcbly]

This is the first SoDak. It was never built.