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Here is a downloadable scan of official US Navy Booklet of General Plans drawings of the South Dakota-class battleship USS South Dakota BB-57. The drawing was originally prepared by New York Shipbuilding Corporation dated 1 October 1940 with revisions published by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 10 April 1946.
The drawing includes:
- tables of general information
- outboard profile
- inboard profile
- bridges
- superstructure deck
- first superstructure deck
- main deck
- second deck
- half & splinter deck
- third deck
- first platform
- second platform
- hold
- third bottom
- inner bottom
- hull cross sections forward
- hull cross sections aft
The original scan was obtained from the US National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
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Notice: these plans may not print at the scale stated on them due to the scanner settings chosen when the plans were originally scanned.
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