United States Navy — Cruiser class
Portland-class cruiser
Portland class
The class in numbers
- 5 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- United States Navy
- In commission
- 1932-1946
- Preceded by
- Northampton-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- New Orleans-class cruiser
- Operators
- United States Navy
- Builders
- Bethlehem Fore River, MA
- New York Shipbuilding, NJ
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 9,800 long tons (9,957 t)
- Length
- 185.93 m (610 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32.7 knots (60.6 km/h, 37.6 mph)
- Complement
- 807
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 9 × 8 in/55 cal guns (3x3)
- 8 × 5 in/25 cal AA guns
- 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm) saluting guns (removed during wartime)
- 8 x .50-cal machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Indianapolis (CA-35) | CA-35 | 1932 | Sunk 1945 |
| USS Portland (CA-33) | CA-33 | 1933 | Scrapped 1959 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Portland-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.