![]() USS Rochester on 20 September 1953
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Class overview | |
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Name | Oregon City class |
Builders | Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Fore River Shipyard |
Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Baltimore class |
Succeeded by | Des Moines class |
Subclasses | Albany class |
Built | 1944–1951 |
In commission | 1946–1961[note 1] |
Planned | 10 |
Completed | 4 |
Cancelled | 6 |
Retired | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Heavy cruiser |
Displacement | 13,260 long-tons (standard) |
Length | |
Beam | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
Propulsion | General Electric steam turbines turning 120,000 hp (89,000 kW) |
Speed | 32.4 knots (60.0 km/h; 37.3 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × lifeboats |
Complement | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament |
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Armor | 6 Inch belt armor |
Aircraft carried | 4 × Vought OS2U Kingfishers |
Aviation facilities |
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The Oregon City-class was a class of heavy cruisers of the United States Navy. Although ten ships of this class were planned, only four were completed – one of those as a command ship. The three ships completed as cruisers were in commission from 1946 to 1980, one having been converted to a guided missile cruiser (CG).
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