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Saturday, 18 December 2021

American light cruiser USS Little Rock (CL-92) according to the report of progress of naval construction dated 1 May 1942

Cleveland-class light cruisers

Fargo-class light cruisers

Contractor. William Cramp&Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Percentage of completion on 1 May 1942: 7.3

Percentage of completion gain for April 1942: 0.1

Number of months between keel laying and completion: 23

Date of completion as per contract or order: 1 May 1945

Date of completion as reported by building yard on 11 January 1941: 7 January 1945

Date of completion as last reported by building yard: 1 December 1944

Months ahead/behind 11 January 1941 prediction: ahead 1.2

Note

1. Part of Cleveland-class, preceded by Brooklyn-class, succeeded by Fargo-class. Laid down with yard number 535 on 6 March 1943m launched on 27 August 1944, commissioned on 17 June 1945, decommissioned on 24 June 1949, reclassified CLG-4 on 23 May 1957, converted into a Galveston-class guided missile cruiser Cleveland-subclass, preceded by Boston-class cruisers, succeeded by Providence-class cruisers, between 1957-1960, recommissioned on 3 June 1960, reclassified CG-4 on 1 July 1975, decommissioned and stricken on 22 November 1976 and became a museum ship.  


Sources

Franklin Roosevelt D. Roosevelt Presidential Library&Museum. Bureau of Ships: reports 1 May 1942 FDR’s President’s Secretary’s Files (psfc000095).  

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