Galveston-class cruiser

Short description: Class of American warships (1958–1979)

USS Galveston in October 1963

Class overview
Operators:|  United States Navy
Preceded by:|  Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
Succeeded by:|  Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
Subclasses:|  Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
In commission:|  1958—1979
Completed:|  3
Retired:|  3
Scrapped:|  1, 1 sunk as target
Preserved:|  1 (USS Little Rock)
General characteristics
Type:|  Guided missile cruiser
Displacement:|  15,205 tons
Length:|  610 ft (185.9 m)
Beam:|  66 ft (20.1 m)
Draft:|  25 ft (7.6 m)
Propulsion:|  4 × 634 psi boilers, steam turbines, 4 shafts
Speed:|  32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement:|  1,395 officers and enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:|

* Little Rock and Oklahoma City:
* AN/SPS-2 height-finding radar
* AN/SPS-10 surface-search radar
* AN/SPS-17 air-search radar
* AN/SPG-49 fire-control radar
* AN/SPS-42 reflector antenna
* AN/SRN-6 TACAN
* Galveston:
* AN/SPS-10 surface-search radar
* AN/SPS-30 height-finding radar
* AN/SPS-43 air-search radar
* AN/SPS-52 air-search radar
* AN/SPG-49 fire-control radar]
* AN/SRN-6 TACAN

Armament:|

* Little Rock and Oklahoma City:
* 1 × triple 6-inch/47-caliber guns
* 1 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns
* 1 × dual Mark 7 RIM-8 Talos missile launcher
* Galveston:
* 2 × triple 6"/47 cal guns
* 3 × dual 5"/38 caliber guns
* 1 × dual Mark 7 RIM-8 Talos missile launcher

Aircraft carried:|  1 × UH-2B or SH-3G
Aviation facilities:|  Helipad

Originally built as Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. light cruisers (CL) in the United States Navy during World War II, in 1957 three ships were re-designated as Galveston-class guided missile light cruisers (CLG) and fitted with the Talos long-range surface-to-air missile system. During the two-year refit under project SCB 140, the aft superstructure was completely replaced and all aft guns were removed to make room for the twin-arm Talos launcher and a 46-missile storage magazine. Three large masts were also installed in order to hold a variety of radars, missile guidance, and communications systems. Little Rock and Oklahoma City were simultaneously converted into fleet flagships under SCB 140A, which involved removing two forward dual 5-inch (127 mm) and one triple 6-inch (152 mm) turrets, and replacing them with a massively rebuilt and expanded forward superstructure. Galveston, in the non-flagship configuration, retained the Cleveland-class's standard forward weapons: three dual 5-inch (127 mm) and two triple 6-inch (152 mm) turrets.[1]

A similar pattern was followed in converting three other Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. ships (Providence, Springfield, and Topeka) to operate the Terrier surface-to-air missile system, creating the Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.. Providence and Springfield were outfitted as fleet flagships, but Topeka was not.

Like the Providence class cruisers, the Galveston class ships suffered from serious stability problems caused by the topweight of the missile system. Indeed, the Galveston class ships were more affected by heavy Talos missile system than the Terrier equipped ships. Weight reduction measures and the use of ballast were necessary to improve stability. The cruisers, particularly Galveston, also suffered from hogging of the hull.

All three Galveston-class ships were decommissioned to the reserve fleet between 1970 and 1979. In the 1975 cruiser realignment, Little Rock and Oklahoma City were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG). The ships were stricken from the Naval Vessel Register between 1973 and 1979. Galveston was scrapped in the mid-1970s, Oklahoma City was sunk as a target in 1999, and Little Rock is a museum ship in Buffalo, NY.

## Contents

* 1 Ships in class
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Ships in class

Ship Name  | Hull No.  | Converted at  | Laid down  | Launched  | Commissioned  | Decommissioned  | Fate

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Galveston | CLG-3  | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | 20 February 1944  | 22 April 1945  | 28 May 1958  | 25 May 1970  | Sold for scrap, 16 May 1975
Little Rock | CLG-4  | New York Shipbuilding Corporation | 6 March 1943  | 27 August 1944  | 3 June 1960  | 22 November 1976  | Museum ship, Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, Buffalo, New York
Oklahoma City | CLG-5  | Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco | 8 December 1942  | 20 February 1944  | 7 September 1960  | 15 December 1979  | Sunk as target by Republic of Korea Submarine Lee Chun (SS 062), 25 March 1999

## See also

* List of cruisers of the United States Navy

## References

1. ↑ Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 386–393. ISBN 0-87021-739-9.

## External links

* hazegray.org
* US Naval Historical Center

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