United States Navy — Cruiser class
Omaha-class cruiser
Omaha class
The class in numbers
- 10 Planned
- 10 Completed
- 10 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1918–1925
- In commission
- 1923–1949
- Preceded by
- Chester-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Brooklyn-class cruiser
- Operators
- United States
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 7,050 long tons (7,163 t)
- Length
- 169.16 m (555 ft) OA
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 458
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- 2 × dual 6"/53 cal guns
- 8 × single 6"/53 cal guns
- 2 × single 3"/50 cal guns
- 2 × triple 21" torpedo tubes
- 2 × dual 21" torpedo tubes
- 224 × mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Cincinnati (CL-6) | CL-6 | 1924 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Concord (CL-10) | CL-10 | 1923 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Detroit (CL-8) | CL-8 | 1923 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Marblehead (CL-12) | CL-12 | 1924 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Memphis (CL-13) | CL-13 | 1925 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Milwaukee (CL-5) | CL-5 | 1923 | Scrapped 1949 |
| USS Omaha (CL-4) | CL-4 | 1923 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Raleigh (CL-7) | CL-7 | 1924 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Richmond (CL-9) | CL-9 | 1923 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Trenton (CL-11) | CL-11 | 1924 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Omaha-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.