Oregon City-class cruiser

	USS Rochester on 20 September 1953
Class overview
Name	Oregon City class
Builders	Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Fore River Shipyard
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	Baltimore class
Succeeded by	Des Moines class
Subclasses	Albany class
Built	1944–1951
In commission	1946–1961
Planned	10
Completed	4
Cancelled	6
Retired	4
General characteristics
Type	Heavy cruiser
Displacement	13,260 long-tons (standard)
Length	664 ft (202 m) wl; 673 ft 5 in (205.26 m) oa;
Beam	70 ft 10 in (21.59 m)
Draft	26 ft 4 in (8.03 m)
Propulsion	General Electric steam turbines turning 120,000 hp (89,000 kW)
Speed	32.4 knots (60.0 km/h; 37.3 mph)
Boats & landing ; craft carried	2 × lifeboats
Complement	1,142 officers and enlisted
Sensors and ; processing systems	AN/SPS-6 air-search radar; AN/SPS-8A height-finding radar;
Armament	As Built:; 3 × triple 8"/55 caliber guns; 6 × twin 5"/38 caliber guns; 11 × quad and 2 x twin Bofors 40 mm guns; 8 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons; Post-1953 (Albany, Rochester):; 3 × triple 8"/55 caliber guns; 6 × twin 5"/38 caliber guns; 10 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns;
Aircraft carried	4 × Vought OS2U Kingfishers
Aviation facilities	2 × aircraft catapults; Helipad (later conversion);

The Oregon City class was a class of heavy cruisers of the United States Navy. Although ten ships of this class were planned, only four were completed – one of those as a command ship. The three ships completed as cruisers were in commission from 1946 to 1980, one having been converted to a guided missile cruiser (CG).

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