Talk:USS Kearsarge (BB-5)

Turrets in Superpositions
This ship has turrets in superpositions which was very high tech for it's time, it didn't arrive on Royal Navy battleships untill well after dreadnought. This is where a turret is placed behind and above another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.247.12.181 (talk) 14:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The design is better thought of as a two-story turret as the upper part couldn't rotate independently. Super-firing turrets were entirely independent and far more useful in combat.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:46, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Why is this vessel a "BB"?
The designation "BB" only came into existence in 1920. When commissioned she would have have been "Battleship #5; in 1909 "B-5" would have started to come into use. She was converted to a crane ship in 1920 and redesignated IX-16 (briefly) and then AB-1. "BB" came into use on July 17 1920, the same day she was recommissioned as a crane ship so she never went under the "BB" designation and was never listed as BB-5. Any source that says otherwise would be anachronistic and wrong. Herostratus (talk) 09:30, 2 February 2019 (UTC)