United States Navy — Cruiser class
Pensacola-class cruiser
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1926-1930
- In commission
- 1929–1947
- Succeeded by
- Northampton-class cruiser
- Operators
- United States Navy
- Builders
- New York Navy Yard, NY (1)
- New York Ship, NJ (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
- 9,100 long tons (9,246 t)
- Length
- 178.31 m (585 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Complement
- 1,200
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 8 in/55 caliber guns (2×2, 2×3)
- 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 Pensacola (CA-24) | CA-24 | 1930 | Target 1948 |
| USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) | CA-25 | 1929 | Target 1948 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Pensacola-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.