USS Little Rock (CL-92 / CLG-4 / CG-4)

United States (1945)

USS Little Rock was commissioned towards the end of World War 2 and saw new life as a guided-missile cruiser before her sailing days ended.

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National Origin: United States

Service Year / Commissioned: 1945

Classification Type: Light Cruiser / Guided Missile Cruiser Warship

Ship Class: Cleveland-class

Number-in-Class: 27

Global Operators:
United States

Structural - Crew, Dimensions, and Operating Weights:

Operational
CREW

Personnel
1,255

Dimension
LENGTH

Feet
610 ft

Meters
185.93 m

Dimension
BEAM

Feet
66.3 ft

Meters
20.21 m

Dimension
DRAUGHT

Feet
25 ft

Meters
7.62 m

Displacement
SURFACE

Tons
10,670 t

Installed Power / Machinery - Standard Day Performance:
4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers feeding 4 x Steam turbines and developing 100,000 horsepower to 4 x Shafts.

Performance
SPEED

Knots
33 kts

Miles-per-Hour
38 mph

Performance
RANGE

Nautical Miles
12,600 nm

Miles
14,500 mi

Miles
23,335 km

Armament / Air Wing:

Original Fit:
12 x 6" /47 caliber (152mm) main guns in four three-gunned turrets.
12 x 5" /38 caliber (127mm) guns in six twin-gunned turrets.
12 x 40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns in two four-gunned turrets and two two-gunned turrets.
20 x 20mm Oerlikon Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns

As Guided-Missile Cruiser:
3 x 6" (152mm) main guns
2 x 5" /38 caliber guns
1 x Mark 7 "Talos" Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) twin-missile launcher (46 reloads).

Aircraft:
None.

Ships-in-Class (27):

USS Cleveland (); USS Columbia (); USS Montpelier (); USS Denver (); USS Amsterdam / Independence (); USS Santa Fe (); USS Tallahassee / Princeton (); USS Birmingham (); USS Mobile (); USS Vincennes (); USS Pasadena (); USS Springfield (); USS Topeka (); USS NEw Haven / Belleau Wood (); USS Huntington / Cowpens (); USS Dayton / Monterey (); USS Wilmington / Cabot (); US Biloxi (); USS Vicksburg / Houston (); USS Providence (); USS Manchester (); USS Buffalo (); USS Fargo / Langley (); USS Vicksburg; USS Duluth (); USS Newark (); USS Miami (); USS Wilkes-Barre / Astoria (); USS Oklahoma City (); USS Little Rock (); USS Galveston (); USS Youngstown; USS Buffalo / Bataan (); USS Newark / San Jacinto (); USS Amsterdam (); USS Portsmouth (); USS Wilkes-Barre (); USS Atlanta (); USS Dayton ()