United States Navy — Cruiser class
Atlanta-class cruiser
Atlanta class
The class in numbers
- 8 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1940–1945
- In commission
- 1941–1949
- Preceded by
- Brooklyn-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Juneau-class cruiser
- Operators
- United States Navy
- Builders
- Federal Shipbuilding, NJ (2)
- Bethlehem Fore River, MA (2)
- Bethlehem San Francisco, CA (4)
- Subclasses
- Oakland class
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 6,718 long tons (6,826 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 7,400 long tons (7,519 t)
- Length
- 164.9 m (541 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 35
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As designed:
- 8 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns
- 4 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber guns
- 6 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- 2 × quad Mark 15 torpedo torpedo tubes
- Oakland class:
- 6 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns
- 8 × dual Bofors 40 mm guns
- 16 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- 2 × quad Mark 15 torpedo torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Atlanta (CL-51) | CL-51 | 1941 | Scuttled 1942 |
| USS Flint (CL-97) | CL-97 | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 |
| USS Juneau (CL-52) | CL-52 | 1942 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Juneau (CLAA-52) | CLAA-52 | 1942 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Oakland (CL-95) | CL-95 | 1943 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Reno (CL-96) | CL-96 | 1943 | Scrapped 1962 |
| USS San Diego (CL-53) | CL-53 | 1942 | Scrapped 1960 |
| USS San Juan (CL-54) | CL-54 | 1942 | Scrapped 1961 |
| USS Tucson (CL-98) | CL-98 | 1945 | Scrapped 1971 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Atlanta-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.