USS Quincy (CA-39)

History
USS Quincy (CA-39), underway on 1 May 1940, as seen from a Utility Squadron One aircraft. Note identification markings on her turret tops: longitudinal stripes on the forward turrets and a circle on the after one.
United States
Name:	Quincy
Namesake:	City of Quincy, Massachusetts
Ordered:	13 February 1929
Awarded:	9 January 1933
Builder:	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Cost:	$8,196,000 (contract price)
Laid down:	15 November 1933
Launched:	19 June 1935
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Henry S. Morgan
Commissioned:	9 June 1936
Identification:	Hull symbol:CA-39
Honors and awards:	1 × battle stars
Fate:	Sunk, Battle of Savo Island 9 August 1942
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	New Orleans-class cruiser
Displacement:	10,136 long tons (10,299 t) (standard) 12,463 long tons (12,663 t) (loaded)
Length:	588 ft (179 m) oa 575 ft (175 m) pp
Beam:	61 ft 10 in (18.85 m)
Draft:	19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) (mean) 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) (max)
Installed power:	8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 107,000 shp (80,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 × Parsons reduction steam turbines 4 × screws
Speed:	32.7 kn (37.6 mph; 60.6 km/h)
Range:	10,000 nmi (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Capacity:	Fuel oil: 1,650 tons
Complement:	103 officers 763 enlisted
Armament:	9 × 8 in (200 mm)/55 caliber guns (3x3) 8 × 5 in (130 mm)/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns 2 × 3-pounder47 mm (1.9 in) saluting guns 8 × caliber 0.50 in (13 mm) machine guns
Armor:	Belt: 3–5 in (76–127 mm) Deck: 1 ¹⁄₄–2 ¹⁄₄ in (32–57 mm) Barbettes: 5 in (130 mm) Turrets: 1 ¹⁄₂–8 in (38–203 mm) Conning Tower: 5 in (130 mm)
Aircraft carried:	4 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities:	2 × Amidship catapults
General characteristics (1942)
Armament:	9 × 8 in (200 mm)/55 caliber guns (3x3) 8 × 5 in (130 mm)/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns 2 × 3-pounder47 mm (1.9 in) saluting guns 12 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons 4 × quad 1.1 in (28 mm)/75 caliber anti-aircraft guns

USS Quincy (CA-39) was a United States Navy New Orleans-class cruiser, sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942.

Quincy, the second ship to carry the name, was laid down by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts on 15 November 1933, launched on 19 June 1935, sponsored by Mrs. Catherine Adams-Morgan, wife of Henry S. Morgan, and commissioned at Boston on 9 June 1936, Captain William Faulkner Amsden in command.

The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Such ships, with a limit of 10,000 tons standard displacement and 8-inch caliber main guns may be referred to as "treaty cruisers." Originally classified a light cruiser when she was authorized, because of her thin armor, she was reclassified a heavy cruiser, because of her 8-inch guns. The term "heavy cruiser" was not defined until the London Naval Treaty in 1930. This ship and Vincennes were a slightly improved version of the New Orleans-class design.

Soon after being assigned to Cruiser Division 8 (CruDiv8), Atlantic Fleet, Quincy was ordered to Mediterranean waters on 20 July 1936, to protect American interests in Spain during the height of the Spanish Civil War. Quincy passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on 26 July and arrived at Málaga, Spain on 27 July to assume her duties. While in Spanish waters, she operated with an international rescue fleet that included Deutschland, Admiral Graf Spee, and Admiral Scheer. Quincy evacuated 490 refugees to Marseille and Villefranche, France, before being relieved by Raleigh on 27 September.

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