&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USS_Houston_(CA-30)_off_San_Diego_in_October_1935.jpg) USS Houston (CA-30), off San Diego, California, in October 1935, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board. She is flying an admiral's four-star flag at her foremast peak, and the Presidential flag at her mainmast peak.
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| Name | Houston |
| Namesake | City of Houston, Texas |
| Ordered | 18 December 1924 |
| Awarded | 13 June 1927 |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| Cost | $10,567,000 (contract price) |
| Laid down | 1 May 1928 |
| Launched | 7 September 1929 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Elizabeth Holcombe |
| Commissioned | 17 June 1930 |
| Reclassified | CA-30, 1 July 1931 |
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| Nickname(s) | "Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast"[1] |
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| Fate | Sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942 |
| General characteristics (as built)[2][3] | |
| Class and type | Northampton-class cruiser |
| Displacement | 9,050 long tons (9,195 t) (standard) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 66 ft 1 in (20.14 m) |
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| Speed | 32.7 kn (37.6 mph; 60.6 km/h) |
| Range | 10,000 nmi (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Capacity | 1,500 short tons (1,400 t) fuel oil |
| Complement | 109 officers 676 enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried | 4 × SOC Seagull scout-observation floatplanes |
| Aviation facilities | 2 × Amidship catapults |
| General characteristics (1942)[4] | |
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USS Houston (CL/CA-30), was a Northampton-class cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship to bear the name "Houston".
She was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, on 7 September 1929, sponsored by Elizabeth Holcombe (daughter of Oscar Holcombe, then-mayor of Houston, Texas), and commissioned on 17 June 1930.[5]
The ship was originally classified as a light cruiser (hull number CL-30) because of her thin armor. Houston was redesignated a heavy cruiser (CA-30) on 1 July 1931, as the provisions of the 1930 London Naval Treaty considered ships with 8-inch (20.3 cm) main guns to be heavy cruisers.
- ^ "Ship Nicknames". zuzuray.com. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Ships' Data, U. S. Naval Vessels". US Naval Department. 1 July 1935. pp. 16–23. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "US Cruisers List: Light/Heavy/Antiaircraft Cruisers, Part 1". Hazegray.org. 22 January 2000. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ Terzibashitsch, Stefan (1984). Cruisers of the US Navy 1922–1962. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-974-X.
- ^ "Houston II (CA-30)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.