[i][[Kantai Collection]][/i]'s personification of the US Navy battleship USS [i]Maryland[/i] (BB-46). 
Character design by [[Parsley-F]].

h4. Appearance
In-game, she is portrayed with [[long hair|long]] [[blonde hair]] and [[blue eyes]], and a [[large_breasts|well endowed]] yet petite body, much like her sister [i]Colorado[/i]. She wears a yardarm [[headgear]], a two-tone [[grey dress]] with blue accents and a [[sleeveless]] [[white shirt]] that superficially appears [[strapless dress|strapless]], a [[blue necktie]] with her hull number (46) on it, [[black gloves]], [[black thighhighs]] held by [[garter straps]], a grey [[capelet]], and [[high heels|high-heeled]] [[rudder footwear]].

Her [[rigging]] is the same as that of her sister's, with all four of her historic 406 mm twin gun mounts, two of her 127 mm open pedestal mounts, a [[smokestack]], and her real-life cage mast with a range clock. Her [[Maryland Kai (Kancolle)|first remodel]] swaps her range clock for an SK [[radar]] mounted atop the mast.

h4. History
In real life, [i]Maryland[/i] was moored inboard of the [i]Oklahoma[/i] at Pearl Harbor on the day of the attack and largely escaped damage while Oklahoma capsized from the bomb and torpedo damage sustained. Several of Oklahoma's sailors assisted Maryland's crew in the attack while Maryland's crew assisted in rescue efforts aboard Oklahoma.

She was among the first battleships from the attack to reenter active service, sortieing with the other available units during the [[battle of Midway]] as a standby force.

She participated in shore bombardment duties in the battles of Tarawa and Saipan before seeing action in the battle of Leyte Gulf against "Nishimura's fleet.":/pools/9549 Later on, she sustained kamikaze damage on the same day as [[Operation Ten-Gou|Operation Ten-go]] (which also explains her being the reward for Spring 2022 E-5, which is based off [i]Ten-Go[/i]), which put her out of action for the rest of the conflict. She was decommissioned in 1947 and scrapped 12 years later.

h4. [i]Colorado[/i]-class battleships
* [[Colorado (Kancolle)]] (BB-45)
* [b]Maryland [/b] (BB-46)

h4. See also
* [[Maryland (Azur Lane)]]
* [[Maryland (Warship Girls R)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: USS [i]Maryland[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maryland_(BB-46)]
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