U.S.S. Wisconsin

the increase in lenth was only 2 feet

and when modeling that in any scale,that 2 feet is impossible to notice

Steve H. wrote:

Hi I saw a post somewhere about details of the Iowa Class battleship Wisconsin, it should be noted that in the early '50's she acidently rammed a destroyer at sea. She had extensive damage to her bow[not to mention ruining the day for that tin can], to repair it they removed part of the bow of one of her incomplete sister ships{U.S.S. Illinois}. So when the work was finished she was about 75 feet longer than her sister ships, thus the Wisconsin is the "biggest" battleship from that time on. I saw that on PBS in Chicago{Ch.11} in the last year-year and a half, on a PBS series about "Dreadnoughts".  Just to clear the difference in the Wisconsins true length demensions. SteveH

I think that you have some incorrect information.  It is my understanding that the bow came from the Kentucky not the Illinois.  That said, the repair is described as replacement of about 70' of bow with part of the Kentucky.  Such an operation would involve cutting the damaged part of the Wisconsin back to a good structual place, then adding a piece from the kentucky to replace the damaged bow.  I understand that the result was a slight increase in the length of the ship, certainly not 75' of additional length.  If you check some references I am sure that they will confirm that the increase of length is slight.  the original length should be 887'3"

US Naval Historical Center Photo

The Kentucky "underway" enroute to be mated with the Wisconsin.

US Naval Historical Center Photo

And the remains of the Kentucky enroute to the breakers

well heres the final confirmation for this detail.

 http://navysite.de/bb/bb64.htm

After a little digging, I found this:  http://www.usswisconsin.org/Collision/collision.htm

It is a pretty good item and explains how the Wisconsin got the nickname "Wisky".