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The armored deck was up to 4 in (100 mm) on its sloped sides and 2.5 in (64 mm) elsewhere. [ 1 ] The as-built engineering plant included four coal-fired cylindrical boilers producing steam for two horizontal triple expansion engines totaling 10,750 ihp (8,020 kW ) for a designed speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph), although 20 knots (37 km/h ...
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The Northampton-class cruisers were a group of six heavy cruisers built for the United States Navy, and commissioned between 1928 and 1931. The Northamptons saw much action in World War II. Three (Northampton, Chicago, and Houston) were lost during the war. The other three were decommissioned soon after the end of the war, and scrapped in 1959 ...
Several designs were proposed for a ship carrying both aircraft and a gun armament equivalent to a light cruiser's. One design, from 1930, [5] was described as "a Brooklyn-class light cruiser forwards [and] one half of a Wasp-class aircraft carrier aft", [6] and utilized an early version of the angled deck that would in the 1950s be adopted for use by fleet carriers. [7]
The class was designed as a development of the earlier Brooklyn-class cruisers, the size of which had been limited by the First London Naval Treaty. The start of the war led to the dissolution of the treaty system, but the dramatic need for new vessels precluded a new design, so the Cleveland s used the same hull as their predecessors, but were ...
In 1945, the last year of World War II, there was a box office boom and the British Rank Organisation purchased a half share in Greater Union Theatres. During this time Greater Union acquired the rights of ownership of many theatres across the country including what became the Phoenician Club in Broadway, Sydney in 1943, originally owned by McIntyre's Broadway Theatres and established as a ...
The New Orleans-class cruisers were a class of seven heavy cruisers built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1930s. 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 ...
2 × battle stars for World War II: Fate: Sunk as target with a torpedo by Republic of Korea Submarine Lee Chun on 27 March 1999: Badge: General characteristics (as built) Class and type: Cleveland-class Light cruiser: Displacement: 11,744 long tons (11,932 t) (standard) 14,131 long tons (14,358 t) (max) Length: 610 ft 1 in (185.95 m) oa; 608 ...