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USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) was the lead New Orleans-class cruiser in service with the United States Navy.The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
The New Orleans-class design was a test bed for innovations in cruiser design, and there were three distinct designs within the class. Originally called the Astoria class, the class was renamed after USS Astoria was sunk and the surviving ships of the class underwent substantial reconstruction. Design #1: New Orleans, Astoria, and Minneapolis.
USS New Orleans (later designated PG-34 then CL-22) was a United States Navy protected cruiser of the New Orleans class.. She was laid down in 1895 as Amazonas for the Brazilian Navy by Armstrong, Mitchell and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, launched on 4 December 1896, purchased by the U.S. Navy while building on 16 March 1898; and commissioned 18 March 1898 at Gravesend, England.
USS New Orleans (1815), was a ship-of-the-line laid down in January 1815 but her construction was halted and she remained on the stocks, housed over, until sold in September 1883; USS New Orleans (CL-22), was a New Orleans-class (1896) protected cruiser commissioned in 1898, decommissioned in 1922, and served during both the Spanish–American ...
The New Orleans class of protected cruisers of the United States Navy consisted of two ships which were building for the Brazilian Navy at Elswick, near Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, by Armstrong Whitworth. The Brazilian Navy had ordered four Elswick cruisers, but had already sold the first ship during construction to Chile as Ministro Zenteno.
The first cruisers of the Pensacola, Northampton, New Orleans, and Portland classes – which were designed after the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, so quickly that the last design was complete before sea trial of the first were finished – were originally designated Light Cruisers (CL) due to their light protection. Later, in accordance with ...
USS Ling: United States New Jersey: Hackensack: United States: 1943 Balao class: Submarine: No public access (New Jersey Naval Museum defunct) [35] USS Lionfish: United States Massachusetts: Fall River: United States: 1943 Balao class: Submarine [36] USS Little Rock: United States New York: Buffalo: United States: 1943 Cleveland class: Light ...
USS Minneapolis (CL/CA-36) was a New Orleans-class cruiser built for the United States Navy before the outbreak of World War II, the second ship named for Minneapolis, Minnesota. She served in the Pacific Theater during World War II.