United States Navy — Cruiser class
New Orleans-class cruiser
New Orleans class
The class in numbers
- 7 Planned
- 7 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 14 March 1931 - 24 February 1937
- In commission
- 15 February 1934 – 10 February 1947
- Preceded by
- Portland-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- USS Wichita (CA-45)
- Operators
- United States Navy
- Builders
- Bethlehem Fore River, MA (2)
- Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY (1)
- Puget Sound Navy Yard, WA (1)
- Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA (1)
- New York Shipbuilding, NJ (1)
- Mare Island Navy Yard, CA (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 9,950 long tons (10,110 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 12,463 long tons (12,663 t)
- Length
- 179.22 m (588 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.7 knots (60.6 km/h, 37.6 mph)
- Complement
- 708
- Armament
- 9 × 8-inch/55 caliber guns
- 8 × 5-inch/25 caliber guns
- 8 × .50 caliber machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Astoria (CA-34) | CA-34 | 1934 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Minneapolis (CA-36) | CA-36 | 1934 | Scrapped 1960 |
| USS New Orleans (CA-32) | CA-32 | 1934 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Quincy (CA-39) | CA-39 | 1936 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS San Francisco (CA-38) | CA-38 | 1934 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) | CA-37 | 1934 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Vincennes (CA-44) | CA-44 | 1937 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from New Orleans-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.