USS Cleveland (CL-55)

Light Cruiser Warship

World War 2 veteran USS Cleveland served as the lead ship of her Cleveland-class cruiser warship group.
Authored By: Staff Writer | Last Edited: 3/18/2020

Specifications

Year:
1942

Status
Decommissioned, Out-of-Service

Complement
1,255 Personnel

Ship Class [ Cleveland-class ]
Ships-in-Class [ 29 ] :
USS Cleveland (CL-55); USS Columbia (CL-56); USS Montpelier (CL-57); USS Denver (CL-58); USS Santa Fe (CL-60); USS Birmingham (CL-62); USS Mobile (CL-63); USS Vincennes (CL-64); USS Pasadena (CL-65); USS Springfield (CL-66); USS Topeka (CL-67); USS Biloxi (CL-80); USS Vicksburg (CL-81); USS Providence (CL-82); USS Manchester (CL-83); USS Vicksburg (CL-86); USS Duluth (CL-87); USS Miami (CL-89); USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-90); USS Oklahoma City (CL-91); USS Little Rock (CL-92); USS Galveston (CL-93); USS Youngstown (CL-94); USS Amsterdam (CL-101); USS Portsmouth (CL-102); USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103); USS Atlanta (CL-104); USS Dayton (CL-105)

United States

- Blue Water Operations
- Fleet Support
- Hunter
- Direct-Attack

Length:
610 ft (185.93 m)

Width / Beam:
66.5 ft (20.27 m)

Height / Draught:
20 ft (6.10 m)

Displacement (Surface):
10,000 tons

4 x Boilers with 4 x General Electric turbines developing 100,000 horsepower to 4 x Shafts.

Speed (Surface):
33 kts (37 mph)

Range:
11,001 nm (12,660 miles; 20,374 km)

12 x 6" (152mm) /47 caliber main guns (four triple-gunned turrets).
12 x 5" (127mm) /38 caliber Dual-Purpose (DP) guns (six twin-gunned turrets).
32 x 40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns (eight quad-gunned turrets).

4 x Curtiss SOC Seagull reconnaissance floatplanes.

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