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The Atlanta-class cruisers were eight United States Navy light cruisers which were designed as fast scout cruisers, flotilla leaders, or destroyer leaders, but which proved to be effective anti-aircraft cruisers during World War II.
This is a broadside view of the new 6.000-tcn cruiser Atlanta (CL-51) after she slid down the ways into the Hackensack River from the ways at the Kearny, N. J., shipyard. The light cruiser can do 43 knots, as fast as the speediest of U. S. destroyers, the Navy Department revealed.
23 maj 2024 · The first Atlanta class cruisers (some says Boston class) were a pair of protected cruisers, and among the very first steel warships of the “New Navy” in the 1880s. They differed in some ways so other authors have them separated, but in truth they were very close sisters so we will have them treated both here.
These plans involve a wide variety of design studies, ranging from large cruisers with twelve-inch guns to anti-aircraft cruisers with main batteries of five-inch guns, plus hybrid "flight deck cruisers" and schemes for converting cruisers to aircraft carriers.
USS Atlanta (CL-51) of the United States Navy was the lead ship of the Atlanta class of eight light cruisers. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection for US naval task groups, Atlanta served in this capacity in the naval battles Midway and the Eastern Solomons.
Media in category "Atlanta class cruiser (1884)" The following 55 files are in this category, out of 55 total. Atlanta class cruiser - Brassey's 1887.png 5,424 × 3,027; 1.84 MB
USS ATLANTA was the lead ship of the ATLANTA - class of light cruisers and the third ship in the Navy named after the city in Georgia. Severely damaged by a Japanese torpedo and both enemy and friendly gunfire during the Battle of Guadalcanal, the ATLANTA suffered heavy casualties among her crew and had to be sunk by her crew on November 13, 1942.
