USS Mississippi at sea in the late 1930s.
Name: USS Mississippi
Namesake: The State of Mississippi
Operator: United States Navy
Awarded: 23 November 1914
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding
Laid down: 5 April 1915
Launched: 25 January 1917
Sponsored by: Miss Camelle McBeath, daughter of the Chairman of the Mississippi State Highway Commission
Commissioned: 18 December 1917
Decommissioned: 17 September 1956
Reclassified: BB-41 to AG-128
Struck: 30 July 1956
Fate: Sold for scrap
Notes: authorized 30 June 1914
General characteristics
Class and type: New Mexico-class battleship
Displacement: 32,000 long tons (32,500 t)
Length: 624 ft (190 m)
Beam: 97.4 ft (29.7 m)
Draft: 30 ft (9.1 m)
Speed: 21 kn (24 mph; 39 km/h)
Complement: 55 officers, 1,026 enlisted
Armament: 12 Ã? 14 in (360 mm) guns,
14 Ã? 5 in (130 mm)/51 cal guns,[1]
4 Ã? 3 in (76 mm) guns, and
2 Ã? 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes
