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Photo #: S-511-4

"Proposed Flight Deck Cruiser"


Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during the final effort to develop a flight deck cruiser ("CF").
This plan, dated 19 December 1939, is for a 12,000 ton standard displacement ship (14,220 ton trial displacement) with a main battery of three 8"/55 guns, a secondary battery of eight 5"/38 guns and an aircraft complement of 24 to 36. Ship's dimensions are: waterline length 640'; waterline beam 67'; draft 21' 8". Powerplant has 100,000 horsepower for a speed of 33 knots.
Scale of the original drawings is 1/32" = 1'.

The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 1 March 2000
Rescanned and reposted 16 February 2005