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The double-ended cruisers (with missile armament carried both fore and aft) were commissioned between 1976 and 1980. [1] They were the final class of nuclear-powered cruisers completed and the last ships ordered as Destroyer Leaders under the pre-1975 classification system. The ships had relatively short service lives for surface ships.
Thenceforward new heavy and light cruisers were numbered in a single sequence. These four classes were known as "Treaty cruisers" and "Tinclads" and were seen even before World War II as deficient by the Navy due to the treaty limitations, but despite their high losses in the early days of the war they performed well. [15] Pensacola class
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 ...
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This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo , unprotected , protected , scout , light , armoured , battle- , heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.
USS Roanoke (CL-145) was the second ship of the Worcester-class light cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy shortly after the end of World War II.Commissioned in 1949, she served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific before being decommissioned in 1958.
The CL-154 class was the final attempt to build a "super-Atlanta-class cruiser" by replacing the Atlanta ' s 5-inch/38-caliber gun with the new 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 16 gun. The new gun had a higher rate of fire and a longer range than the 38-caliber gun, and fired a heavier and more destructive projectile; the only downside to the new gun was ...