Cruiser class
Juneau-class cruiser
Juneau class
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Built
- 1944–1946
- In commission
- 1946–1955
- Preceded by
- Atlanta-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- CL-154-class cruiser (not built)
- Builders
- Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 6,500 long tons (6,604 t)
- Length
- 164.9 m (541 ft)
- Speed
- 32.7 knots (60.6 km/h, 37.6 mph)
- Complement
- 742
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 6 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns
- 6 × quad Bofors 40 mm guns
- 4 × dual Bofors 40 mm guns
- 8 × dual Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- Juneau:
- 6 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns
- 7 × dual 3"/50 caliber guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Juneau-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.