United States Navy — Cruiser class
Brooklyn-class cruiser
Brooklyn class
The class in numbers
- 9 Planned
- 9 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1935–1938
- In commission
- 1937–1992
- Preceded by
- Omaha-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Atlanta-class cruiser
- Operators
- Brazil Brazilian Navy
- Builders
- Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY (3)
- New York Ship, NJ (3)
- Newport News, VA (2)
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA (1)
- Subclasses
- St. Louis 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
- 9,767 long tons (9,924 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 12,207 long tons (12,403 t)
- Length
- 185.32 m (608 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 868
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- 5 × triple 6"/47 caliber guns
- 8 × single 5"/25 caliber guns (Brooklyn through Honolulu)
- 4 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns (St. Louis and Helena)
- 8 × single M2 Browning machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Boise (CL-47) | CL-47 | 1938 | Scrapped 1981 |
| USS Brooklyn (CL-40) | CL-40 | 1937 | Scrapped 1992 |
| USS Helena (CL-50) | CL-50 | 1939 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Honolulu (CL-48) | CL-48 | 1938 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Nashville (CL-43) | CL-43 | 1938 | Scrapped 1985 |
| USS Philadelphia (CL-41) | CL-41 | 1937 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS Phoenix (CL-46) | CL-46 | 1938 | Sunk 1982 |
| USS Savannah (CL-42) | CL-42 | 1938 | Scrapped 1960 |
| USS St. Louis (CL-49) | CL-49 | 1939 | Scrapped 1980 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Brooklyn-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.