Sea-keeping and crew lessons reshaped American battleships

The Florida and Wyoming classes illustrate changes in bow form, beam, freeboard, and overall seagoing character after the Great White Fleet's voyage. Arkansas, of the Wyoming class, has greater beam and a different bow shape than the Florida comparison. Wyoming also has an additional turret, and its higher freeboard raises the forward guns farther from the water. Crew comfort received more attention after the voyage, and American accommodation was notably spacious through much of the interwar period. The later Standard-type battleships combined improved seakeeping, gun placement, and habitability. Their balance earns a favorable assessment for their period, while subsequent technology eventually overtook them.