Brooklyn Class
1937–1947
Nine light cruisers that outgunned most heavy cruisers on paper . 15 six-inch guns in five triple turrets. Atlantic and Pacific service from North Africa to the final Pacific campaigns. One survived WWII to become the only major warship ever sunk in combat by a nuclear submarine.
CL-40 USS Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Class
Lead ship of the class. 15 six-inch guns in five triple turrets gave the Brooklyn class more broadside weight than many heavy cruisers. Atlantic throughout WWII. Sold to Chile postwar as O'Higgins . served the Chilean Navy into the 1990s.
CL-41 USS Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Class
Mediterranean theater throughout WWII . North Africa, Sicily, Anzio. Provided close-in naval gunfire support at the Anzio beachhead under sustained German shore battery fire.
CL-42 USS Savannah
Brooklyn
Class
Hit by a German Fritz X radio-guided bomb at Salerno, September 11, 1943 . the first warship in history struck by a precision-guided weapon. The bomb penetrated through the turret to the lower handling room and detonated, killing 197 men. She survived and was repaired.
CL-43 USS Nashville
Brooklyn
Class
Hit by a kamikaze off Mindoro, December 13, 1944 . 133 killed, one of the highest single-strike casualty counts on a cruiser in the Pacific war. She absorbed the blow and kept fighting.
CL-46 USS Phoenix
Brooklyn
Class
Survived Pearl Harbor untouched. Fought through the entire Pacific war. Sold to Argentina as ARA General Belgrano . sunk by HMS Conqueror on May 2, 1982, during the Falklands War. The only major warship ever sunk in combat by a nuclear submarine.
CL-47 USS Boise
Brooklyn
Class
An enemy shell penetrated her forward magazine at the Battle of Cape Esperance, October 11, 1942. Flooding accidentally extinguished the powder before it detonated . she was seconds from blowing up. Returned to the fleet and kept fighting.
CL-48 USS Honolulu
Brooklyn
Class
Torpedoed at the Battle of Kolombangara in 1943, and again approaching Leyte Gulf in 1944. Hit twice, repaired twice. Pacific Fleet workhorse.
CL-49 USS St. Louis
Brooklyn
Class
Survived Pearl Harbor. Fought at the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. 11 battle stars. Sold to Brazil as Tamandare postwar . one of the longest-serving Brooklyn hulls in any navy.
CL-50 USS Helena
Brooklyn
Class
Sunk at the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 6, 1943, by three Long Lance torpedoes. She went down fast. Many survivors spent days clinging to a reef before destroyers rescued them under Japanese air attack.
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Ships Built
1
Lost in Combat