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USN - "USS VIRGINIA" (BB-13) First of Five (441.3') Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleships - Commissioned 7 May 1906 - Served in the Atlantic Fleet Conducting Training Exercises - Armament: 4 x 12 Inch (305mm) Main Battery, 8 x 8 Inch (203mm) Secondary Battery, 12 x 6 Inch (152mm) Guns, 12 x 3 Inch (76mm) Guns, 12 x 1.85 Inch (47mm) Guns and 4 x 21 Inch (533mm) Torpedo Tubes - Decommissioned, 13 August, 1920, Sunk as Target by USAAC Off Diamond Shoals, North Carolina, 5 September 1923