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Belknap-class cruiser

{{Short description|US guided missile cruiser class}}

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{{Infobox ship class overview

|Name=Belknap class

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|Operators={{naval|United States}}

|Class before={{sclass|Leahy|cruiser|4}}

|Class after={{sclass|California|cruiser|4}}

|Subclasses={{sclass|Truxtun|cruiser|4}}

|Built range=1962–1967

|In commission range=1964–1995

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|Total ships planned=

|Total ships completed=9

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|Total ships active=0

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|Total ships lost=

|Total ships retired=9

|Total ships preserved=

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|Ship type=Guided missile cruiser

|Ship displacement= 7,930 tons

{{Cite web

| url = http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cg-26-specs.htm

| title = CG 26 BELKNAP class

| access-date = 2007-01-12

| author = Pike, John E.

| author-link = John E. Pike

| date = 5 February 2005

| publisher = GlobalSecurity.org

}} (8,057 metric tons)

|Ship length={{convert|547|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|55|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught=

|Ship draft={{convert|29|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship propulsion=four 1200 psi (8300 kPa) boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts. 85,000 shp (63,384 kW)

|Ship speed=32 knots (59 km/h)

|Ship range=

|Ship complement=27 officers, 450 enlisted

|Ship sensors=*AN/SPS-10 surface search RADARBlackman, Raymond V. B. Jane's Fighting Ships (1970/71) p.429

  • AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar
  • AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar
  • 2 AN/SPG-55 Terrier missile fire control radarPolmar, Norman "The U.S. Navy: Shipboard Radars" United States Naval Institute Proceedings December 1978 p.144
  • AN/SQS-26 SONARPolmar, Norman "The U.S. Navy: Sonars, Part 1" United States Naval Institute Proceedings July 1981 p.119

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|Ship armament=*(final configuration)

|Ship armour=

|Ship armor=none

|Ship aircraft=(final configuration) 1 × SH-2H Seasprite

|Ship notes=

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The Belknap-class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided-missile cruisers (their missile armament was installed only forward, unlike "double-ended" missile cruisers with missile armament installed both forward and aft) built for the United States Navy during the 1960s. They were originally designated as DLG frigates (destroyer leaders; the USN use of the term frigate from 1950 to 1975 was intended to evoke the power of the sailing frigates of old),{{cn|date=March 2024}} but in the 1975 fleet realignment, they were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG).

Description

When commissioned, the main armament of the Belknap class was a 5-inch/54-caliber Mk. 42 gun on the quarterdeck and a twin-rail RIM-2 Terrier Mk 10 Missile Launcher on the foredeck.

{{Cite web

| url = http://navysite.de/cg/cgn35class.htm

| title = The TRUXTUN – class

| access-date = 2007-01-13

| last = Doehring

| first = Thoralf

| publisher = Unofficial US Navy Site

}} The Mk 10 Mod 7 launchers in this class were also capable of launching RUR-5 ASROC to eliminate need for a separate Mk 112 ASROC launcher.{{cite book |last1=Bauer |first1=Karl Jack |last2=Roberts |first2=Stephen S. |title =Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants |publisher =Greenwood Publishing Group |date =1991 |page =215 |isbn =0313262020 }} These were unofficially spoken of as Ter/AS (tear-ass) launchers.{{citation needed|date=June 2016|reason= "Tear-Ass" uncited}} The class was also equipped with two single 3"/50 caliber gunshttps://www.navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_cr_belknap.htm for defence against sub-sonic aircraft.

{{Cite web

| url = http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/cruisers/guided.htm

| title = US Cruisers List: Guided Missile Cruisers

| access-date = 2007-01-12

| author = Toppan, Andrew

| author-link = Andrew Toppan

| date = 17 July 2000

| publisher = Haze Gray and Underway

| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070107002048/http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/cruisers/guided.htm| archive-date= 7 January 2007 | url-status= live}} In the early 1980s, the Terrier missiles were replaced with RIM-67 Standard missiles; and during the NTU program in the late 1980s and early 1990s the class had its Standard SM-1 system upgraded to utilize SM-2ER Block II, the 3-inch guns were replaced with two 4 cell Harpoon Surface-to-surface missile launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS systems were installed.

The derivative USS Truxtun shared the weapons systems outfit of the Belknap class, but was nuclear-powered, larger and substantially unrelated in design (for example, many weapons systems in different locations, such as the aft-facing GMLS). Most information related to nuclear cruisers is still classified, but Truxtun appears to be more a Belknap-like derivative of the nuclear cruiser Bainbridge than the other way around.

Ships in class

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! Pennant

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! Laid Down

! Launched

! Commissioned

! Decommissioned

! Fate

colspan=8|Belknap-class conventional cruiser
{{USS|Belknap|CG-26|2}}

|CG-26

|rowspan=3|Bath Iron Works, Bath

|5 February 1962

|20 July 1963

|7 November 1964

|15 February 1995

|Sunk as target, 24 September 1998

{{USS|Josephus Daniels|CG-27|2}}

|CG-27

|23 April 1962

|2 December 1963

|8 May 1965

|21 January 1994

|Broken up at Brownsville, 1999

{{USS|Wainwright|CG-28|2}}

|CG-28

|2 July 1962

|25 April 1965

|8 January 1966

|15 November 1993

|Sunk as target, 12 June 2002

{{USS|Jouett|CG-29|2}}

|CG-29

|Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton

|25 September 1962

|30 June 1964

|3 December 1966

|28 January 1994

|Sunk as target, 10 August 2007

{{USS|Horne|CG-30|2}}

|CG-30

|San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco

|12 December 1962

|30 October 1964

|15 April 1967

|4 February 1994

|Sunk as target, 29 June 2008

{{USS|Sterett|CG-31|2}}

|CG-31

|Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton

|25 September 1962

|30 June 1964

|8 April 1967

|24 March 1994

|Broken up at Brownsville, 2005

{{USS|William H. Standley|CG-32|2}}

|CG-32

|Bath Iron Works, Bath

|29 July 1963

|19 December 1964

|9 July 1966

|11 February 1994

|Sunk as target, 25 June 2005

{{USS|Fox|CG-33|2}}

|CG-33

|Todd Shipyard, San Pedro

|15 January 1963

|21 November 1964

|8 May 1966

|15 April 1994

|Broken up at Brownsville, 2008

{{USS|Biddle|CG-34|2}}

|CG-34

|Bath Iron Works, Bath

|9 December 1963

|2 July 1965

|21 January 1967

|30 November 1993

|Broken up at Philadelphia, 2001

colspan=8|Truxtun-class nuclear-powered cruiser
{{USS|Truxtun|CGN-35|2}}

|CGN-35

|New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden

|17 June 1963

|19 December 1964

|27 May 1967

|11 September 1995

|Disposed of through Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton, 1999

See also

References

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Bibliography

  • {{cite journal |last1=Bellars|first1=Robert A.|title=Question 41/88?: U.S. Naval Relics|journal=Warship International|date=2007|volume=XLIV|issue=2|pages=157–158 |issn=0043-0374}}

External links

{{Commons category|Belknap class cruiser}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725232039/http://destroyerhistory.org/coldwar/belknapclass/ Belknap-class frigates] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20090219202357/http://destroyerhistory.org/ Destroyer History Foundation]
  • [http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/cg-26.htm FAS] write-up

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