United States Navy — Cruiser class
Baltimore-class cruiser
Baltimore class
The class in numbers
- 14 Planned
- 14 Completed
- 14 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1941–1945
- In commission
- 1943–1971
- Preceded by
- USS Wichita (CA-45)
- Succeeded by
- Oregon City-class cruiser
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- Bethlehem, Fore River, MA (8)
- New York Ship, NJ (4)
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA (2)
- Subclasses
- Boston-class cruiser, Albany-class cruiser
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 13,600 long tons (13,818 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 17,000 long tons (17,273 t)
- Length
- 205.13 m (673 ft) OA
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 1,146
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- Armament
- 3 × triple 8-inch/55-caliber guns
- 6 × twin 5-inch/38-caliber guns
- 12 × quad Bofors 40 mm guns
- 24 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
Roster
Holding 8 of the 14 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Baltimore (CA-68) | CA-68 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Boston (CA-69) | CA-69 | 1943 | Scrapped 1975 |
| USS Canberra (CA-70) | CA-70 | 1943 | Scrapped 1980 |
| USS Chicago (CA-136) | CA-136 | 1945 | Scrapped 1991 |
| USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) | CA-72 | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS Quincy (CA-71) | CA-71 | 1943 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS Rochester (CA-73) | CA-73 | 1945 | Scrapped 1979 |
| USS Saint Paul (CA-73) | CA-73 | 1945 | Scrapped 1979 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Baltimore-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.