Pensacola-class heavy cruiser

Pensacola-class heavy cruiser
USS Pensacola off of Mare Island Navy Yard, late June 1945
Class Overview
Builder	New York Navy Yard, New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Class	Pensacola-class
Type	Heavy cruiser
Technical Information
Length	179 meters
Beam	20 meters
Draught	6 meters
Displacement	9,000 long tons
Machinery	8 boilers, steam turbines, 4 screws
Speed	32 knots
Armor	4-inch belt, 2.5-inch turrets, 1-inch deck, 1.25-inch conning tower
Armament	10 x 8-inch/55 cal guns, 8 x single 5-inch/25 cal guns, 2 x 3-pounder saluting guns, 4 x quad 1.1-inch/75 cal guns, 24 x 40 mm Bofors guns, 28 x 20 mm Oerlikon cannons, 6 x 21-inch torpedo tubes
Aircraft capacity	2 aircraft
Crew	1,200 officers and enlisted
Usage
Year Introduced	1929
Affiliation	United States of America
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The Pensacola-class cruisers were two heavy cruisers produced bu the United States Navy during the interwar period after World War I. Adhering to the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty, this class of cruisers had relatively thin armor, which did not protect her vital areas well in combat. Built as "treaty cruisers", the two ships served in World War II, in the Pacific Theater. Both ships were used post-war as test vessels for Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb experiments at Bikini Atoll.

Ships in class

• USS Pensacola (CA-24)
• USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)