United States Navy — Cruiser class
Fargo-class cruiser
Fargo-class
The class in numbers
- 13 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 11 Cancelled
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1943–1946
- In commission
- 1945–1950
- Preceded by
- Cleveland-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Worcester-class cruiser
- Builders
- New York Shipbuilding, NJ
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 11,744 long tons (11,932 t)
- Length
- 185.32 m (608 ft)
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 1,100
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- 4 × triple 6"/47 caliber Mark 16 guns
- 6 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns
- 4 × quad Bofors 40 mm guns
- 6 × dual Bofors 40 mm guns
- 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Fargo (CL-106) | CL-106 | 1945 | Scrapped 1971 |
| USS Huntington (CL-107) | CL-107 | 1946 | Scrapped 1962 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Fargo-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.