Cleveland class cruiser
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 USS Cleveland (CL-55) |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Cleveland class cruiser |
| Operators: |  United States Navy |
| Preceded by: | Atlanta-class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | Fargo-class cruiser |
| Planned: | 39 |
| Completed: | 27 |
| Cancelled: | 12 |
| Retired: | 27 |
| Preserved: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Light Cruiser |
| Displacement: | 11800 tons (standard) 14131 tons (full) |
| Length: | 186.0 meters |
| Beam: | 20.2 meters |
| Height: | 34.5 meters |
| Draft: | 7.5 meters |
| Propulsion: | 4 Babcock & Wilcox 634psi boilers 4 GE geared steam turbines 4 Screws 100,000 Horsepower |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots |
| Complement: | 1,255 70 officers 1,115 enlisted |
| Armament: |
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| Armor: | 3.25-5 in belt 2 in deck 1.5-6 in turrets 6 in barbettes 2.25-5 in conn |
| Aircraft carried: | 4 |
| Aviation facilities: | 2 catapults for seaplanes |
The United States Navy designed the Cleveland class of light cruisers for World War II with the goal of increased range and AA armament as compared with earlier classes.
Although 39 ships were projected to be built, only 27 were actually commissioned. Nine ships were reordered as Independence-class light carriers. Six ships were later refit as Galveston and Providence-class guided missile cruisers.
The ships were mainly used in the Pacific during World War II, some however saw action in Europe and off of the coast of Africa.
[edit] Ships
- Cleveland (CL-55)
- Columbia (CL-56)
- Montpelier (CL-57)
- Denver (CL-58)
- Amsterdam (CL-59) (Reordered as light carrier Independence)
- Santa Fe (CL-60)
- Tallahassee (CL-61) (Reordered as light carrier Princeton)
- Birmingham (CL-62)
- Mobile (CL-63)
- Vincennes (CL-64)
- Pasadena (CL-65)
- Springfield (CL-66) (refit as guided missile cruiser CLG-7/CG-7)
- Topeka (CL-67) (refit as guided missile cruiser CLG-8)
- New Haven (CL-76) (Reordered as light carrier Belleau Wood)
- Huntington (CL-77) (Reordered as light carrier Cowpens)
- Dayton (CL-78) (Reordered as light carrier Monterey)
- Wilmington (CL-79) (Reordered as light carrier Cabot)
- Biloxi (CL-80)
- Houston (CL-81)
- Providence (CL-82) (refit as guided missile cruiser CLG-6/CG-6)
- Manchester (CL-83)
- Fargo (CL-85) (Reordered as light carrier Langley)
- CL-84 (Unnamed, Cancelled)
- Vicksburg (CL-86)
- Duluth (CL-87)
- CL-88 (Unnamed, Cancelled)
- Miami (CL-89)
- Astoria (CL-90)
- Oklahoma City (CL-91) (refit as guided missile cruiser CLG-5/CG-5)
- Little Rock (CL-92) (refit as guided missile cruiser CLG-4/CG-4)
- Galveston (CL-93) (refit as guided missile cruiser CLG-3)
- Youngstown (CL-94), cancelled and scrapped.
- Buffalo (CL-99) (Reordered as light carrier Bataan)
- Newark (CL-100) (Reordered as light carrier San Jacinto)
- Amsterdam (CL-101)
- Portsmouth (CL-102)
- Wilkes-Barre (CL-103)
- Atlanta (CL-104)
- Dayton (CL-105)
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