CA - USS Louisville (CA-28)

CA-28 USS Louisville

class: Northampton
shipyard: Puget Sound Navy Yard,Bremerton,Washington
construction started: July 4, 1929
launched: 1 September 1930
taken into service: 15 January 1931

damaged
31 January 1944 japanese ships in the republic of the Marshall ostr. ( 09°00'N 167°00'E )
1 February 1944 accidentally damaged by fire USS Indianapolis CA-35 ( 09°00'N 167°00'E )
5 January 1945 at Luzon a kamikaze ( 15°00'N and 119°00'E )
6 January 1945 at Luzon a kamikaze ( 16°37'n, 120°17'E )
5 June 1945 at Okinawa kamikaze ( 26°07'N and 127°52'E )

decommissioned: 17 July 1946
written off: march 1, 1959
sold for scrap: 14 September 1959

length: 600.3' 182,97 m
width: 66.25' of 20.19 m
draught: 23' 7,01 m

Displacement
standard: 9 050 tonnes
maximum: 12 300 tonnes

Drive
boilers: 8 White-Foster
turbines: 4 Parsons
range: 13 000 n. miles / 13 knots
performance: 107 000 shp
speed: 32.7 knots

Armour
hips: 3" 76 mm
deck: 2"-3" of 50.8-76 mm
tower: 1.5" 38.1 mm

Armament
9 x 203 mm 8"/55 ( 3 x III )
4 x 127 mm 5"/25 ( 4 x I )
1939
+ 4 x 127 mm 5"/25 ( 4 x I )

the anti-aircraft armament
1939
8 x 12,7 mm 0.50" M2 ( 8 x I )
1942
16 x 28 mm ( 4 x IV )
12 x 20 mm ( 12 x I )
1945
20 x 40 mm ( 5 x IV )
26 x 20 mm ( 13 x II )

tubes
1931
6 x 533 mm 21" ( 2 x III )

seaplanes: 4

Crew
872 - 1 200 men.
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