![]() ![]() Cruisers book– a bible on the subject– the seven New Orleans class vessels came after America flirted with the more cramped and often extremely lightly armored Pensacola class ( Pensacola and Salt Lake City) Portland class ( Portland and Indianapolis), and Northampton-class ( Northampton, Chester, Louisville, Chicago, Augusta, and Houston) cruisers. About the classĬlassified as the “Second Generation of Treaty Cruisers” by Friedman who has an entire chapter on the subject in his USNI Press U.S. Note that her stern is riding high and that her forward end is low in the water as the Japanese Type 93 Long Lance she caught had severed her bow between # 1 and # 2 eight-inch gun turrets, killing 182 men and lopping off almost a fifth of her length. National Archives, 80-G-216014.Ībove we see the lead ship of her class, the heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32) camouflaged at Tulagi in the then hotly contested Solomon Islands, shortly after she was torpedoed during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942– some 80 years ago today. ![]() Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. ![]()
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