United States Navy — Cruiser class
Alaska-class cruiser
Alaska class
The class in numbers
- 6 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 4 Cancelled
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 17 December 1941 – 11 September 1944
- In commission
- 17 June 1944 – 17 February 1947
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- New York Ship, NJ (2)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 29,771 long tons (30,249 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 34,253 long tons (34,803 t)
- Length
- 246.28 m (808 ft) OA
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 1,517
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
- Armament
- 9 × 12 in/50 caliber Mark 8 guns (3 × 3)
- 12 × 5 in/38 caliber dual-purpose guns (6 × 2)
- 56 × 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors (14 × 4)
- 34 × 20mm Oerlikon (34 × 1)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Alaska (CB-1) | CB-1 | 1944 | Scrapped 1960 |
| USS Guam (CB-2) | CB-2 | 1944 | Scrapped 1961 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Alaska-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.