Oregon City-class cruiser

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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).

Design and development

The Oregon City-class cruisers were a modified version of the previous Template:Sclass design; the main difference was a more compact pyramidal superstructure with single trunked funnel, intended to improve the arcs of fire of the anti-aircraft (AA) guns. The same type of modification also differentiated the Template:Sclass and Template:Sclass classes, and to a lesser degree the Template:Sclass and Template:Sclass classes of light cruisers.

History

Ten ships were authorized for the class with three being completed and the fourth suspended during construction. The final six ships were cancelled, five after being laid down. Construction on the incomplete fourth ship was resumed in 1948 and the ship served as a command ship Template:USS. All three completed cruisers were commissioned in 1946. Oregon City was decommissioned after only 22 months of service, one of the shortest active careers of any World War II-era cruiser. Albany was later converted into a guided missile ship, becoming the lead ship of the Template:Sclass and served until 1980. A similar conversion was planned for Rochester but was cancelled.

Ships in class

Ships in class

Name	Hull Number	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned/ Recommissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
Template:USS	CA-122	Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts	8 April 1944	9 June 1945	16 February 1946	15 December 1947	Struck 1 November 1970; Sold for scrap, 17 August 1973
Template:USS	CA-123		6 Mar 1944	11 Jun 1945	15 June 1946	30 June 1958	Converted to Guided Missile Cruiser Struck 30 June 1985; Sold for scrap, 12 August 1990
	CG-10				3 November 1962	29 August 1980
Template:USS	CA-124		29 May 1944	28 August 1945	20 December 1946	15 August 1961	Struck 1 October 1973; Sold for scrap, 24 September 1974
Template:USS	CA-125		31 August 1944	27 January 1951	7 March 1953	8 April 1970	Converted to command ship during construction – Struck and sold for scrap, 31 Dec 1977
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Cambridge	CA-126		16 December 1944	—			Cancelled 12 August 1945 and scrapped on slip
Bridgeport	CA-127		13 January 1945				Cancelled 12 August 1945 and scrapped on slip
Kansas City	CA-128		9 July 1945				Cancelled 12 August 1945 and scrapped on slip
Tulsa	CA-129		—				Cancelled 12 August 1945
Norfolk	CA-137	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	27 December 1944				Cancelled 12 August 1945 and scrapped on slip
Scranton	CA-138		27 December 1944				Cancelled 12 August 1945 and scrapped on slip

Gallery

• USS Oregon City
  USS Oregon City
• USS Albany
  USS Albany
• USS Rochester
  USS Rochester
• USS Northampton
  USS Northampton

See also

• Albany-class cruiser
• List of cruisers of the United States Navy

Bibliography

• Gardiner, Robert and Stephen Chumbley (editors). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland US: Naval Institute Press, 1995. Template:ISBN.
• Whitley, M.J. Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Brockhampton Press, 1999. Template:ISBN,

External links

• Global Security.org – Oregon City class cruiser
• DANFS