The final American pre-dreadnought class, the Mississippi-class second-class battleships, were a poorly thought out experiment in increasing numbers regardless of quality, and the USN quickly wished to replace them, doing so in 1914, selling them to Greece to pay for a new super-dreadnought battleship, the new USS Idaho (BB-42). They were good sea boats and heavily armed and armored for their type.
The definitive American predreadnought was the penultimate class of the type, the Connecticut class, sporting the usual four-gun array of 12" weapons, a very heavy intermediate and secondary battery, and a moderate tertiary battery. The next group, BB-5 Kearsarge through BB-25 New Hampshire, followed general global pre-dreadnought design characteristics and entered service between 19. They, and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships". Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s.
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