www.deviantart.com. A complete list of all US Navy Cruisers, by type and class, in commission during WWII. The Kronshtadt-class battlecruisers, with the Soviet designation as Project 69 heavy cruisers, ( " 69" ), were ordered for the Soviet Navy in the late 1930s. The design had these characteristics: Dimensions: 176,78m (wl) x 20,12m. The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat. However, this left the sixauthorized Alaska-class cruisers, and a dilemma on what to do with them. Also, as a nod to their not-quite-battleship, not-quite-cruiser roots, instead of being named after US states or cities, the ships were named after US territories with the USS Alaska (CB-1) being the first. Kalinin 51 - X-X Molotovsk. They were armed with (9) 12" guns, (12) 5" guns, (56) 40mm guns, and (34) 20mm guns. Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command. Other notable cruiser classes include Japan's Mogami-class heavy cruisers and the British County-class heavy cruisers. Discussion in 'Road Warriors' started by Heavy Cruiser, May 19, 2016. Sorry to intrude, but just to remind the OP that the people over at Shipbucket prefer pictures based upon their work to be, Some of the add-ons on this site are powered by. This photograph was taken from the Alaska as a Fletcher-class destroyer steamed by. The rest of the class would be the USS Guam (CB-2), USS Hawaii (CB-3), USS Philippines (CB-4), USS Puerto Rico (CB-5), and USS Samoa (CB-6). The Alaskas werethe US Navys answer to these potential foes. However, the project, which was personally controlled by JV Stalin, had a "special, difficultly explainable predilection for heavy cruisers" (the government approved Kuznetsov NG in the middle of 1949, And two years later the laying of the head ship "Stalingrad" followed, and then the second and third. By comparison, the Alaska's were 808 feet-long and weighed 29,771 tons. Know how ships work so you can dominate the seas! Alaska and Guam left the United States and joined up with Task Force 58 at the Ulithi Atoll fleet anchorage in February and March 1945, respectively. Heavy Cruisers Click on "CA-##" for link to page with specifications, history, photographs (where available). The light cruisers were tasked with guarding the main forces of the squadron (battleships and aircraft carriers) at sea and in battle from attacks of torpedo boats, torpedo boats, bombers and torpedo bombers, support and retreat of their destroyers, carrying out patrol duty at the squadron. 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After the surrender of the Japanese, both ships went to Korea to provide assistance in the transfer of power to the Allies. This photo was taken on March 6, 1945, off Iwo Jima. 240 mm/60 naval gun specs:- projectile weight: 235 kg muzzle velocity: 940 m / s charge mass: 100 kg ammunition per gun: 110 rds. As is well known, the Soviet fleet ended the war, having only six modern light cruisers (built in 1938-194), 26 and 26 bis projects with artillery of 180 mm caliber and armoring of the side to 50 and 70 mm respectively. They were armed with (9) 12 guns, (12) 5 guns, (56) 40mm guns, and (34) 20mm guns. A New Orleans native, James Linn first became involved with the institution then known as The National D-Day Museum in 2001 as an eighth-grade volunteer on weekends and during the summer. P. However, this speed and firepower came at a cost. Armed with twelve 8.9'' (225mm) autoloading guns in three turrets, C-144 to C-149 were originally designed as cruiser-killers, capable of outranging and defeating destroyers and other cruisers . The main observant of the Navy, under Project 66, was Captain 1st Rank E. A. Karpukhin, his deputy - Captain-Lieutenant AA Borisov. I've been digging around the forums and come across a 'Project 22' unbuilt Soviet cruiser called a little battlecruiser, but I'm not sure exactly what the design is. JavaScript is disabled. In the hangar were two offset to the left side lifts, theoretically allowing them to combine work with takeoff and landing operations. Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 4:50 pm. Designers widely used this in their everyday life, and higher authorities later legalized it. USS Alaska (CB-1) test firing her 5 guns on February 5, 1945, one day before the ship arrived at the Ulithi Atoll anchorage to join the fast carrier task force. The IJN heavy cruiser Chikuma (or protected cruiser to be precise) class was succeeded by a series of heavy cruisers that grew increasingly powerful with each passing year. Feb 4, 2019 - Description Project 115 was a class of six large heavy cruisers built for the Hosh Navy between 1939 to 1943 and represent the pinnacle of Hosh ship building prior to the end of the war. And it actually has less heavy attack after piercing than the above heavy cruiser. Project 125A: Border patrol boat variant of Project 125. . Work was accelerated. Maybe someone reminded him of the fate of two more aircraft carriers scrapped by his order, and that would be in 1962 on the go. Moscow: Military Publishing, 1991. Modules Compatible Upgrades Slot 1 Linn joined The National WWII Museum staff in 2014 andservedas a Curator until 2020. The modern 12 guns carried by the Alaskas were also an improvement over the 14 guns carried by the older battleships in the US fleet. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1913, William Fournier was raised in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Docking camera number two workshop 50th was also filled with water. The morning of December 20, 1952 the water level in the output pool Molotov plant reached a peak. The list of ships of Russia by project number includes all Russian and Soviet ships by assigned project numbers. Since 1946, in the TsKB-17 of the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry (MSW) (where the cruisers of the projects 26, 26bis, 68 and 69 were designed before the war), and in the Central Scientific Research Institute of Naval Shipbuilding of the Navy, the design studies of new ships of this class on Operational- Tactical assignments were approved by NG Kuznetsov: a light cruiser (Project 65) with artillery of 152 mm caliber and variants of a heavy cruiser (Project 82) with 220- and 305-mm guns. As well as improved armor protection. During the summer of 1945, the Alaska and Guam conducted several shore bombardment missions and even sailed into the East China and Yellow Seasto find Japanese shipping, but found few targets. All attempts to speed up the work of command ran into opposition The Ministry of shipbuilding, however, is quite reasonable. Ultimately, each carrier air group consisted of 30 torpedo bombers Tu-18 and fighter s 54 MiG-19K. When considering the request of the Navy services to expedite the development of the project, Stalin received the confirmation from I.Yumashev that the cruisers of the project were much better than the ships of the project 26, insisted on the following decision: "Accept for the light cruisers the main caliber 152 mm, in every way To speed up the completion of the 68K cruiser, to cease the development of a new Project 65, to release design forces for the completion of the technical project of 68 bis and the development of a draft design 82.". 1 + 1 units. By German cruiser projects in the 1920's. German Light Cruiser project from 1/700 kit Minor Navies Austro-Hungarian non-capital ship Designs. Only since the end of 1955 prescribed the new cars launched on deck "Molotov" and passing the test, "Lazar Kaganovich." Project 19: NKVD large guard ship, cancelled, Project 22: Heavy cruiser design cancelled 1939, Project 23bis: Improvement over Project 23 with simplified belt armor of 380mm, American style TDS replacing Italian style, additional twin 100mm dual-purpose guns, 4 triple 152mm guns instead of 6 twin 152mm guns. Admiral of the Navy N. G. Kuznetsov could not exert real influence on the fate of this plan, since in early 1947 he was removed from the post of the commander-in-chief of the Navy and was appointed head of the naval educational institutions department and then sent to the Far East where he was serving In various positions until 1951. Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command. Location: Finland. Romanian Naval Programmes. Would your Alt Navy be a sufficient influence on events to perhaps gain Finland as an SSR post War or maybe seal up the entrance to the Med between Turkey & Greece limiting Nazi damage to the USSR & reducing Logistics? If you were to ask the US Navy if these ships were battlecruisers or cruisers, the emphatic answer was cruiser. Each Type 055 displaces 12,000 tons and packs 112 vertical-launch cells for anti-air, anti-ship and land-attack missiles. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy hasn't launched a ship it calls a cruiser since. Even then, just the Alaska and Guam were completed as construction was halted again on the Hawaii, and it was scrapped soon after the war. You need to play a total of 20 battles to post in this section. At that time, the draft of the second series of these ships was being developed - 68 bis, more fully satisfied the increased requirements of the Navy, which led to an increase in their main dimensions and displacement. A predecessor project of such a ship with the LKR-22 index, designating a "light" cruiser with 220 mm artillery of high caliber, was developed by TsKB-17 on the OTZ, approved by the naval commander-in-chief Admiral I. Yumashev in 1947. Page last modified: class harbour self-propelled dry-cargo barge, Akademik Kovalev class seagoing armament transport, Akademik Alexandrov class seagoing transport, Modified Steregushchy class corvette design, Modified Steregushchy class border guard ship design, Modified Steregushchy class corvette design for export, Improved Steregushchy class corvette design, BNN-226800 class harbour non self-propelled tank barge, Diskant??? Moving at a top speed of 33 knots, these ships were designed to be cruiser-killers, and would be able to get in and get out of trouble as quickly as possible and throw a hell of a punch. Unfortunately, the fate of the latter two was tragic, after coming to power, Khrushchev their construction was stopped. You make it sound like the USSR stopped making tanks when it was invaded and relied on just its pre-war weaponry. Not exactly. With the naval rearmament of the German Kriegsmarine in the 1930s with its small, but potent force of commerce raiders including ships like the Scharnhorst,and the rumoredbut unconfirmed new battlecruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, there wereworriesin Washington that the US Navy would not have an answer for these ships, and could be vulnerable. Will post response in the thread I posted earlier to prevent derailing. One of the Alaskas Curtiss SC-1 floatplanes taxiing up to the ship to be picked up by the aircraft crane. Revenge took the "Petropavlovsk", during the U.S. aggression in Vietnam made several trips to the war zone, forcing the Americans to allocate to counter the Soviet ship of its aircraft carriers air group, thereby reducing the effectiveness of air strikes against the DRV. However, everything turned out to be much more complicated. With the end of the war, the US Navy had hundreds of ships that were either surplus or obsolete and no longer needed. Original "K-L" Class Heavy Cruiser Design (from January 1939) Ltzow - Level of Completion when sold to Russia 30. Soon they prepared the OTZ, the design of the ship began and the development of weapons for him. Extreme Cruiser DF200GHG4 200cc Go Cart Go Kart Off Road 4 Seater. See how the US Navy tried to create the ultimate cruiser-killer ship. 2 gallon. However, some weapons such as the Anti-Ship Missile and Railgun can destroy the hull directly (although an accidental hit on an airship weapon will destroy only that weapon). In 1956, "Lazar Kaganovich," renamed "Petropavlovsk" went on a long trek around Africa to the Pacific Ocean. Project 66 heavy cruiser or Sverdlov class light cruiser? After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class. Out of all the newly authorized or under construction battleships for the US Navy, only four Iowa-class, four South Dakota-class, and none of the Montana-class ships entered service after December 7, 1941. Australian Cockatoo Heavy Cruiser Design. (* Kuznetsov NG The day before, the course to victory.) As General Douglas MacArthurs campaign on Luzon was underway, news of the Palawan massacre produced a call to action to save thousands of Allied POWs and civilian internees from a similar fate. And most important: the problem was not that the majority of them were out of date, but the fact that almost all thrown on the western border due to lack of fuel. They all were not built. pl. Building warships. Six such cruisers were built for the US Navy during the war years to solve similar problems. Alaska, which was not comparable to Stalingrad in terms of the power of constructive protection and high-speed qualities, was nevertheless a very expensive ship, at an almost equivalent cost to the battleship of the Alabama type (US$74,066,000 and US$76,886,000, respectively). Other powers in World War II operated cruisers, too. The KuK Kriegsmarine produced a number of creative cruiser projects just before and during World War I.While these were not revolutionary in the sense of technology used the ideas presented were quite ingenius and if built would had provide a headache for the enemy to counter them. Were they relics of a long past era and obsolete before they even entered service? Style: Hyper-Cruiser. TECHNICAL DATA Armour: Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. The others were either cancelled or converted into light cruisers. The aircraft carrier now formed the backbone of naval fleets moving forward. Furious, Khrushchev ordered to send even "useless" aircraft carrier scrapped, but in time to change his mind. She carried 305 mm main guns with a very long firing range. In the 1920s the old style of having single guns scattered about the cruiser's deck was abandoned in favor of concentrating firepower in twin and multiple gun turrets . 2. Heavy cruisers were assigned to destroy cruisers with 203-mm artillery, to fight cruisers of the Alaska type and to squeeze out larger enemy ships. ww2 soviet cruisers October 20, 2022 by dreadnaughtz WW2 Soviet Cruisers Between prewar, interwar and cold war designs, the Soviet Union's Navy (Sovietsky Flota) aligned about 32 cruisers, many after the 1917 being relics of the pf even before the war of 1877 or the Russo-Japanese war. ", Stalin's instructions were strictly enforced. Ships help the USSR almost not at all during WWII. 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