New Orleans-class cruiser
Heavy Cruiser class of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the cruisers built in the 1930s. For the class of protected cruisers acquired in the 1890s, see New Orleans-class cruiser (1896).
The New Orleans-class cruisers were a class of seven heavy cruisers built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1930s.
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USS New Orleans | |
Class overview | |
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Name | New Orleans class |
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Operators | United States Navy |
Preceded by | Portland class |
Succeeded by | USS Wichita |
Built | 14 March 1931 - 24 February 1937 |
In commission | 15 February 1934 – 10 February 1947 |
Planned | 7 |
Completed | 7 |
Lost | 3 |
Retired | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Heavy cruiser |
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Length | |
Beam | 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m) |
Draft | 19 ft 5 in (5.92 m) |
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Speed | 32.7 knots (60.6 km/h; 37.6 mph) |
Complement | 708 officers and enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament | |
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These ships participated in the heaviest surface battles of the Pacific War. Astoria, Quincy, and Vincennes were all sunk in the Battle of Savo Island, and three others were heavily damaged in subsequent battles in the Guadalcanal campaign. Only Tuscaloosa, which spent most of the war in the Atlantic, got through the war without being damaged. Collectively, ships of the class earned 64 battle stars. The four surviving ships were laid up immediately after the end of the war, and sold for scrap in 1959.