"8-Inch Cruiser Study - Scheme CA-B"
refit/updated late-war version taking cues from other USN cruisers. In collaboration with
Warship Projects
Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during an examination of heavy cruiser designs with more protection (and in some cases more eight-inch guns) than the Baltimore (CA-68) class. Aircraft are carried amidships.
This plan, dated 16 September 1940, is for a 17,000-ton (standard displacement) ship, 690-feet long on the waterline, with twelve 8"/55 guns in four triple turrets. Speed is 33 knots.
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