Editing Colorado-class battleship (section)

===General characteristics===
[[File:USS Maryland bow view 1944.jpg|thumb|upright|USS ''Maryland'' in March 1944]]

The ''Colorado''s were very similar overall to the ''Tennessee''s, with a {{convert|624|ft|m|adj=on}} [[length overall|overall length]] and a [[beam (nautical)|beam]] at the waterline of {{convert|97|ft|m}}. They displaced {{convert|32600|LT|t}} at normal load and {{convert|33590|LT|MT}} at [[deep load]] and had a [[draft (hull)|draft]] of {{convert|30.5|ft|m|1}}. As in the ''New Mexico'' and ''Tennessee'' classes, they were designed with a [[Bow (watercraft)|clipper bow]] to help keep the ships dryer in heavy seas, and also kept the [[secondary armament]] in the [[superstructure]] rather than in the upper hull (''Pennsylvania'' and earlier classes), where the guns had proved to be excessively wet in heavy seas and thus were frequently unusable.{{sfn|Breyer|1973|p=193}}{{sfn|Friedman|1985|p=134}}