CA - USS Augusta (CA-31)

CA-31 u. s. s. Augusta

class: Northampton
shipyard: Newport New Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company,Newport News,Virginia
construction started: 2 July 1928
launched: 1 February 1930
taken into service: 30 January 1931

decommissioned: 16 July 1946
cancelled: march 1, 1946
sold for scrap: 10 April 1960

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-Forster
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 )
1944
8 x 127 mm 5"/25 ( 8 x I )

the anti-aircraft armament
8 x 12,7 mm 0.50" M2 ( 8 x I )
1944
24 x 40 mm
20 x 20 mm ( 20 x )

tubes
6 x 533 mm ( 2 x III )
( later removed )

The crew
872 - 1 200 men.
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