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Alaska was the third vessel of the US Navy to be named after what was then the territory of Alaska, and was assigned the hull number CB-1. She was laid down on 17 December 1941, ten days after the United States entered the war, was launched in August 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation , in Camden, New Jersey , and was commissioned in ...
The Alaska-class were six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy (USN), of which only two were completed and saw service late in the war. The USN designation for the ships of this class was 'large cruiser' (CB), a designation unique to the Alaska-class, and the majority of leading reference works consider them as such.
Nearly all subsequent US cruisers, heavy and light, were directly or indirectly based on them, including the unique heavy cruiser Wichita. [17] [18] USS Brooklyn (CL-40) USS Wichita (CA-45) Brooklyn class (CL-40) Brooklyn (1937) – WW2: 4 battle stars, later Chilean O'Higgins (CL-41) Philadelphia (1937) – WW2: 5 battle stars, later Brazilian ...
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]
USS Alaska (1868), a wooden-hulled screw sloop-of-war in commission from 1869 to 1883 that saw numerous small actions; USS Alaska (ID-3035), a steam trawler chartered to serve as a minesweeper during World War I, in commission from 1918 to 1919; USS Alaska (CB-1), the lead ship of the Alaska class of large cruisers, in commission from 1944 to ...
Alaska-class cruiser; Atlanta-class cruiser; Baltimore-class cruiser; Brooklyn-class cruiser; Cleveland-class cruiser; Fargo-class cruiser; Juneau-class cruiser; New Orleans-class cruiser; Northampton-class cruiser; Omaha-class cruiser; Pensacola-class cruiser; Portland-class cruiser
The 12"/50 caliber gun Mark 8 was a US naval gun mounted on the Alaska-class cruiser. The gun, like the "large cruiser" that mounted it, was intended to fill the gap between US "heavy cruisers" (6-8") and US battleships (14-16"). The name describes the size of the shells, 12 inches in diameter, and the length of the bore in calibers (50 bore ...
HMS Frobisher, a Hawkins-class cruiser around which the Washington Naval Treaty limits for heavy cruisers were written. A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches) in calibre, whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of ...