Fargo-class cruiser

USS Fargo (CL-106)
Class overview
Name:	Fargo class
Builders:	New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Cleveland class
Succeeded by:	Worcester class
In commission:	1945–1950
Planned:	13
Completed:	2
Cancelled:	11
Retired:	2
Preserved:	0
General characteristics
Type:	Light cruiser
Displacement:	11,744 long tons (11,932 t) (standard) 14,464 long tons (14,696 t) (full)
Length:	608 ft .25 in (185.3 m)
Beam:	66 ft 4 in (20.2 m)
Draft:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Installed power:	4 × Babcock & Wilcox, 634 psi boilers 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric geared steam turbines 4 × screws
Speed:	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement:	1,100 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × triple 6 in (152 mm)/47 6 × dual 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber 28 × 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns (4 × 4, 6 × 2) 20 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons
Armor:	Belt: 1.5–5 in (38–127 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Bulkheads: 5 in (127 mm) Turrets: 3–5 in (76–127 mm) Barbettes: 6 in (152 mm) Conning tower: 2.25–5 in (57–127 mm)
Aircraft carried:	4 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities:	2 × stern catapults

The Fargo-class cruisers were a modified version of the previous Cleveland-class cruiser design; the main difference was a more compact pyramidal superstructure with single trunked funnel, intended to improve the arcs of fire of the anti-aircraft (AA) guns. The same type of modification differentiated the Baltimore and Oregon City classes of heavy cruisers. Changes were made to order to reduce the instability of the Cleveland-class light cruisers, especially their tendency to roll dangerously. The main battery turrets sat about a foot lower and the wing gunhouses (the 5 inch, twin gun mounts on the sides of the ship) were lowered to the main deck. The medium (40 mm) anti-aircraft mounts were also lowered.

In all, 13 ships of the class were planned but only Fargo and Huntington were ever completed, the rest being cancelled at varying states of completion with the de-escalation and eventual end of World War II.

Fargo, the lead ship of the class, was launched on 25 February 1945, but was not commissioned until 9 December 1945, shortly after the war ended. Huntington was commissioned early in 1946. The two ships were decommissioned in 1949-1950, and never reactivated.

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