United States Navy — Cruiser class
Northampton-class cruiser
Northampton class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1928-1931
- In commission
- 1930-1946
- Preceded by
- Pensacola-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Portland-class cruiser
- Operators
- United States Navy
- Builders
- Bethlehem Fore River, MA (1)
- New York Shipbuilding, NJ (1)
- Puget Sound Navy Yard, WA (1)
- Mare Island Navy Yard, CA (1)
- Newport News Shipbuilding, VA (2)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Length
- 182.88 m (600 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 1,205
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 9 × 8 in/55 caliber guns (3× triple turrets)
- 4 × single 5 in/25 caliber guns
- 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm) saluting guns (removed during wartime)
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes (removed by 1936)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Augusta (CA-31) | CA-31 | 1931 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Chester (CA-27) | CA-27 | 1930 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Chicago (CA-29) | CA-29 | 1931 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Houston (CA-30) | CA-30 | 1930 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Louisville (CA-28) | CA-28 | 1931 | Scrapped 1959 |
| USS Northampton (CA-26) | CA-26 | 1930 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Northampton-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.