Photo #: S-511-18
"6-inch Cruiser Study ... Scheme 2"
Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during
an examination of light cruiser designs with the same gun armament
as the Cleveland (CL-55) class, but with greater speed
and improved protection.
This plan, dated 28 July 1940, is for a 13,200-ton (standard
displacement) ship, 680-feet long, with aircraft facilities located
amidships. It represented an effort to control weights and improve
stability by reducing the after hull by one deck. Note that the
cruiser has quadruple torpedo tubes amidships, immediately aft
of the aircraft catapults.
Scale of the original drawing 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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