Photo #: S-584-080
Preliminary Design Plan for a "Light Cruiser" ... June
23, 1915
Preliminary design plan for a light cruiser prepared in response
to an oral General Board request of 12 June 1915. This design
apparently was requested to investigate what capabilities might
be provided on a much smaller displacement than that found to
be necessary in the many larger "Scout Cruiser" designs
being considered at the same time. This design resembled in size
the much earlier Chester (Scout Cruiser # 1) class cruisers
built under the Fiscal Year 1905 program but were intended to
have been about six knots faster.
This plan provides two 6-inch and eight 3-inch guns, turbine
machinery, and a speed of 30 knots in a ship 450 feet long on
the water line, 42 feet.in beam, with a normal displacement of
4,000 tons. No ships were built to a design of this type.
Note: The original document was ink on linen (black on
white).
The original plan is in the 1911-1925 "Spring Styles Book".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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