Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Light cruiser CL-89

USS Miami (CL-89)

Cleveland-class cruiser light cruiser

USS Miami (CL-89)
U.S. Navy, photographed from the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36). — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 98406 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — CL-89 The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Miami (CL-89) in a Pacific Ocean anchorage, soon after the end of the war with Japan, circa September-October 1945. Two Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk s are on the catapults, a third is placed on the hangar. An old flush-deck destroyer converted to a high speed transport (APD) is anchored in the background.

Service

  1. United States Navy as USS Miami28 December 1943 — 30 June 1947614 days of the war
Cleveland-class cruiser light cruiser Particulars
Name
USS Miami
Pennant / hull number
CL-89
Namesake
City of Miami, Florida
Builder
Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia
Laid down
2 August 1941
Launched
8 December 1942
Commissioned
28 December 1943
Decommissioned
30 June 1947
Struck
1 September 1961
Fate
Sold for scrap on 20 July 1962 (1962)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
11,744 long tons (11,932 t)
Displacement, full load
14,131 long tons (14,358 t)
Length
185.93 m (610 ft)
Beam
20.12 m (66 ft)
Draught
7.32 m (24 ft)
Speed
32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
Range
11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
Complement
1,285
Main gun
152 mm (6 in)

USS Miami was a Cleveland-class cruiser light cruiser in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number CL-89. She was named for City of Miami. Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia laid her keel on 2 August 1941. She entered service on 28 December 1943, having been launched on 8 December 1942.

23 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Brooklyn-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Fargo-class cruiser.

Displacement was 11,744 long tons standard and 14,131 long tons at full load. She measured 185.9 m (610 ft) long with a beam of 20.1 m (66 ft). Her designed speed was 32.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,285.

Her main battery was twelve 152 mm (6 in) guns. She carried four aircraft. Her machinery developed 100,000 shp.

She was in commission for 614 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 June 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 September 1961.

She was broken up for scrap on 20 July 1962.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 4 × steam turbines
  • 4 × screw propellers
Power
  • 4 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 100000 shp
Armament
  • 12 × 6 in Mark 16 guns
  • 12 × 5 in/38 caliber guns
  • 28 × 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
  • 10 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns
Armour
  • Belt: 3.5 - 5 in
  • Deck: 2 in
  • Barbettes: 6 in
  • Turrets: 6 in
  • Conning Tower: 5 in
Aircraft
  • 4 × floatplanes

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Miami (CL-89) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy, photographed from the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36). — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 98406 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons