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Providence-class cruisers (5 P) Pages in category "Cold War cruisers of the United States" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total.
Due to the near-total destruction of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the number of the ships of this generation to be completed as gun cruisers would be small: three Juneau-class, two Fargo-class, and three Oregon City-class cruisers. A fourth Oregon City-class cruiser would be completed postwar as a command cruiser. Seventeen hulls from among the ...
Laid up, for sale Hull built in 1989, and originally intended as a Soviet research vessel, the Okean, completed as a cruise ship for Swan Hellenic in 1996 Veendam: 1996 1996-2020 Laid up, owned by Seajets: Built as the Veendam for Holland America Line: Astoria Grande: 1996 1996–present In service for Miray Cruises [7] Built as the AIDAcara ...
The second USS Fresno (CL-121) was a United States Navy Juneau-class light cruiser launched on 5 March 1946 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. Ruth R. Martin; and commissioned on 27 November 1946, with Captain Elliott Bowman Strauss in command. [3] She was reclassified CLAA-121 on 18 March 1949.
After Congress rejected the Navy's 2012 proposal to retire its Ticonderoga-class cruisers, it provided funding for a 15-year ship modernization program. Since 2015, the Navy has spent roughly $3.7 ...
The US Navy's main impetus for the Alaska class was the threat posed by Japanese cruisers raiding its lines of communication in the event of war. Heavy cruisers were also the most likely surface threat to aircraft carriers making independent raids, so a cruiser-killer was also an ideal carrier escort. [3]
Long Beach-class cruisers (3 P) M. ... Pages in category "Cruisers of the United States Navy" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The ceremony will be part of an Enshrinement Week that also is set to include the annual preseason Hall of Fame Game and the Enshrinees' Gold Jacket Dinner. Modern-era finalists: