The ship carries four recoverable seaplanes for over-the-horizon (OtH) work, launched from two catapults. Her conventional engine achieves a sea speed of 32 knots under ideal conditions, and she carries 1,100 officers and men (approximately 61 and 1,085, respectively).
Power comes from a unit of 4 Babcock & Wilcox boiler units providing 120,000 hp to 4 steam turbine sets to drive 4 stern shafts.
When built, she had a displacement of 14,500 tons, a barrel length of 673.5 feet, a beam of 70.9 feet, and a draft of up to 26.4 feet. She was officially launched on September 16, 1944, and commissioned on February 17, 1945just in time for the final stages of the war. Paul, Minnesota, laid on Febru(formerly USS Rochester). Within the Baltimore class are sub-classes in Boston and Albany. This class succeeds the one-time heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA-45) and is replaced by the Oregon class?. The ship was part of the Baltimore class of heavy ocean cruiser battleships, 14 of which were to be built between 19 (the last year of the war).Īll fourteen completed, none of the group was lost in action, and the class was withdrawn without any level of retention. 1945 COLD WAR KOREAN WAR VIETNAM WAR WORLD WAR 2ĭuring the height of World War II (1939-1945), the United States Navy (USN) commissioned the Bethlehem Steel Company of Quincy, Massachusetts to build the St.
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