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...compared with the leading post-Jutland ships of other nations, the Mutzu (and her sister ship, the Nageto) of Japan and the British battle cruiser Hood, the Colorado (and her sister ships) are slightly inferior...
...Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Captain Martin E. Trench, visited Camden, N. J. There officials of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation met him on the bridge of a new battleship, formally turned the ship over to the Government. Captain Trench signed a receipt and read an order from the Secretary of the Navy commissioning the Colorado as a battleship of the U. S. Navy. The colors were hoisted and Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap took command. A new fighter had been added to the U. S. fleet...
...Fleet. With the commissioning of the Colorado, only one more capital ship, the West Virginia, may to be added to our Navy until the expiration of the Limitation of Armaments Treaty. The Delaware will be scrapped to make way for the Colorado, and later, when the West Virginia is commissioned, the North Dakota will be scrapped. In this way the number of capital ships will remain fixed at 18, named after various states. No more capital ships will be laid down till 1931; none completed until...
...Colorado, or " Battleship No. 45," is a 32,600-ton ship, 624 feet long and 97 feet abeam, and draws 31 1/2 feet of water...
...served with the Atlantic Fleet, and later became flagship of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She had been named after tne State of Colorado, but in 1916 was re-named Pueblo (after Pueblo, Colo.). During the War she served as a cruiser and transport, and in 1921 was made receiving ship at New York. The present Colorado is named after the state, in accordance with the present practice of naming capital ships...