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![]() USS New Orleans (CA-32), steams through a tight turn in Elliott Bay, Washington, on 30 July 1943, following battle damage repairs and overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard.
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Name | New Orleans |
Namesake | City of New Orleans, Louisiana |
Ordered | 13 February 1929 |
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Builder | Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York |
Cost | $12,000,000 (limit of price) |
Laid down | 14 March 1931 |
Launched | 12 April 1933 |
Sponsored by | Miss Cora S. Jahncke |
Commissioned | 15 February 1934 |
Decommissioned | 10 February 1947 |
Reclassified | CA-32, 1 July 1931 |
Stricken | 1 March 1959 |
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Nickname(s) | NO Boat[1] |
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Fate | Sold for scrap 22 September 1959 |
General characteristics (as built)[2] | |
Class and type | New Orleans-class cruiser |
Displacement | 9,950 long tons (10,110 t) (standard) |
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Beam | 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 32.7 kn (37.6 mph; 60.6 km/h) |
Capacity | Fuel oil: 1,650 tons |
Complement | 96 officers 819 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 4 × floatplanes |
Aviation facilities | 2 × Amidship catapults |
General characteristics (1945)[3] | |
Armament |
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Aviation facilities | 1 × Amidship catapult |
USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) was the lead New Orleans-class cruiser in service with the United States Navy. The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Such ships, with a limit of 10,000 long tons (10,160 t) standard displacement and 8-inch (203-millimetre) calibre main guns may be referred to as "treaty cruisers." Originally classified a light cruiser, because of her thin armor, she was reclassified, soon after being laid down, a heavy cruiser, because of her 8-inch guns. The term "heavy cruiser" was not defined until the London Naval Treaty in 1930.