U.S.S. Savannah
CL-42
1945
(Neptun 1342c)
- Class: Brooklyn - 7 light cruisers of 1933-34
- Displacement: 9,475 tons
- Dimensions: 600(wl) 608.5(oa) x 68.5 x 24 ft.
- Machinery: 4-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 100,000 = 34 knots
- Armament: 15-6"/47 (5x3), 8-5"/38 (4x2), 28-40mm (4x4+6x2) A.A. guns; 4 aircraft
- Armor 5" belt, 6.5" turrets, 2" deck
- Complement: 868
- Builder: New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, NJ
- Keel Laid: 31 May 1934
- Launched: 8 May 1937
- Commissioned: 10 Mar 1938
- Decommissioned: 22 Apr 1946
- Actions: Savannah earned 3 Battle Stars for service in North Africa, Sicily, and Salerno, where she was severely damaged by a German FX1400 guided bomb 11 Sep 1943. Rebuilt with 4 twin 5"/38 replacing original 8 single 5"/25 and blistered as shown here. Despite the rebuild, Savannah and sister Honolulu, which had been torpedoed twice, were considered structurally compromised and scrapped shortly after the war, while their sisters were sold to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in 1951.
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