USS Amsterdam (CL-59)
Service
- as Independence14 January 1943 — 28 August 1946962 days of the war
- Name
- USS Amsterdam
- Pennant / hull number
- CL-59
- Builder
- New York Shipbuilding Corporation
- Laid down
- 1 May 1941
- Launched
- 22 August 1942
- Commissioned
- 14 January 1943
- Decommissioned
- 28 August 1946
- Fate
- Target in nuclear weapons testing, 1946; scuttled 29 January 1951 (1951)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 10,662 long tons (10,833 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 14,751 long tons (14,988 t)
- Length
- 189.89 m (623 ft)
- Beam
- 21.79 m (71.5 ft)
- Draught
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Range
- 13,000 nmi (24,076 km)
- Complement
- 1,569
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
USS Amsterdam was a cruiser of the Independence-class aircraft carrier, operated by the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number CL-59. New York Shipbuilding Corporation laid her keel on 1 May 1941. Launched on 22 August 1942, she entered service on 14 January 1943.
She was one of 20 ships of her class. The Saipan-class aircraft carrier followed.
Displacement was 10,662 long tons standard and 14,751 long tons at full load. She measured 189.9 m (623 ft) long with a beam of 21.8 m (71 ft). Her designed speed was 31 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,569. Her main battery was of 40 mm (1.6 in) calibre.
She carried 34 aircraft.
She was in commission for 962 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 28 August 1946.
She was expended as a target on 29 January 1951. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- General Electric turbines, 4 shafts, 4 boilers; 100,000 shp
- Armament
- 26 × Bofors 40 mm guns
- Aircraft
- 34
- 8 torpedo-bombers
- 26 fighters
Sister ships
- USS Bataan (CVL-29)
- USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
- USS Buffalo (CL-99)
- USS Cabot (CVL-28)
- USS Cowpens (CVL-25)
- USS Dayton (CL-78)
- USS Fargo (CL-85)
- USS Huntington (CL-77)
- USS Independence (CVL-22)
- USS Langley (CVL-27)
- USS Monterey (CVL-26)
- USS New Haven (CL-76)
- USS Newark (CL-100)
- USS Princeton (CV-23)
- USS Princeton (CVL-23)
- USS Reprisal (CV-30)
- USS San Jacinto (CVL-30)
- USS Tallahassee (CL-61)
- USS Wilmington (CL-79)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Amsterdam (CL-59) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-74436 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons