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To: Errant
She's a beauty.


9 posted on 03/08/2011 5:51:35 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah, she really is a beauty. Have to admit though, I thought she was an Arleigh Burke at first. Is she a Block II or a Block III Tico? I don’t have an up to date Janes’ so I have no idea now what have become of the CGNs.


13 posted on 03/08/2011 6:34:18 AM PST by paladin1_dcs
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To: Rummyfan
She seems kinda naked with that single 5"? upfront and little or no armor from the oil canning visible on the side of the hull.

In contrast the USS Biloxi, a Cleveland class light cruiser of WW II:

Displacement: 11,744 tons standard, 14,131 tons full load
Dimensions: 600' wl, 610' 1" loa, 66' 4" beam, 24' 6" full load draft
Machinery: 4-shaft GE turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilson boilers, 100,000 shp = 32.5 kts. Oil 1507-2100 tons, range 11,000nm at 15 kts.
Armor: Belt 5"-3.5"; armored deck 2"; bulkheads 5"; barbettes 6"; turrets 6.5" face, 3" top, 3" sides, 1.5" rear; CT 5" with 2.25" roof
Armament: 12-6"/47 (4x3), 12-5"/38 DP (6x2), 28-40mm AA (4x4, 6x2), 10-20mm AA (10x1), 4 aircraft
Complement: 1285
Commissioned: 1943 (Cleveland class 1942-1946)


USS Cleveland

32 posted on 03/08/2011 9:05:42 PM PST by Errant
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