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The United States Navy began building a series of battlecruisers in the 1920s, more than a decade after their slower and less heavily armed armored cruisers had been rendered obsolete by the Royal Navy's Invincible-class battlecruisers.
26 wrz 2019 · Planned like the South Dakota class battleships, the five Lexington-class battlecruisers (Lexington, Saratoga, Constitution, Constellation, United States) were to be completed in 1922-23. They were of course cancelled due to the Washington Treaty suspension in 1923.
The hulk of Oklahoma was salvaged and was lost at sea while being towed to the mainland for scrapping. Two American-built pre-dreadnought battleships, USS Mississippi (BB-23) and her sister USS Idaho (BB-24), were sunk in 1941 by German bombers during their World War II invasion of Greece.
The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy.
6 sie 2023 · Battlecruisers were named after American states and heavy cruisers after major American cities. The names of the vessels in this new class, Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico and Samoa fitted nicely between these series.
Most of the American cruisers remembered from World War II were built under programs framed in 1939 to 1941, before the United States entered the conflict. They were conceived with the interwar ideas of fleet battle and trade warfare in mind, not the lessons of Guadalcanal or the big carrier battles.
Concept/Program: These are the most misunderstood of all US cruisers. Although often called "battlecruisers", they were truly an outgrowth of cruiser design. They were in effect "big cruisers", whereas battlecruisers were better considered "lightly armored battleships".
