The NorthCarolinaclass were a pair of fast battleships, NorthCarolina and Washington, built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s
destroyer, two mounts for pre-1930s battleships, and four mounts for NorthCarolina–class and newer battleships. On at least some ships they were director-controlled
Essex-class aircraft carriers and Iowa-classbattleships before any Montana-class keels were laid. Their intended armament would have been twelve 16-inch (406 mm)
Delaware-classbattleships of the United States Navy were the second class of American dreadnoughts; the class comprised two ships: Delaware and North Dakota