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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
On 13 October 2012, San Jacinto was involved in a collision with U.S. nuclear submarine Montpelier off the coast of northeastern Florida. [6] The cruiser suffered damage to her sonar dome. [7] Due to the emergency dry docking, San Jacinto was unable to join Carrier Strike Group Ten and aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman deployment to the Persian ...
USS Helena was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s, the ninth and final member of the class.The Brooklyns were the first modern light cruisers built by the US Navy under the limitations of the London Naval Treaty, and they were intended to counter the Japanese Mogami class; as such, they carried a battery of fifteen 6-inch (150 mm) guns, the same ...
Antietam. Builders: United States Displacement: 9,800 tons; Aircraft: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk; Armament: 2 × Mk 26 or Mk 41 launchers with up to 122 missiles (for Mk 41 VLS) or 88 (with Mk 26 twin-rail launchers) (ASROC, SM-2, Tomahawk); 2 × 127 mm DP guns; 2 × Phalanx CIWS, 8 Harpoon SSM
BuShips presentations of design studies to the General Board in October and then December 1944 [16] showed it was extremely difficult to design a cruiser with adequate armor on a hull displacement large enough to accommodate six or eight twin 5-inch/54 caliber gun mounts plus a robust secondary battery, but small enough to obtain a 35-knot (65 ...
Montgomery-class cruisers (6 P) N. New Orleans-class cruisers (9 P) Northampton-class cruisers (8 P) O. Omaha-class cruisers (12 P) Oregon City-class cruisers (12 P) P.
Pennsylvania-class cruisers (8 P) Pages in category "Armored cruisers of the United States Navy" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Columbia-class cruisers were two protected cruisers constructed in 1890 and 1891 and used by the United States Navy. [3] They were lightly gunned ships with only moderate armor that were built for the speed needed to overtake and destroy the fast ocean liners of the day as commerce raiders .