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Monday, 20 December 2021

American light cruiser USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) 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: 9.1

Percentage of completion gain for April 1942: 0.8

Number of months between keel laying and completion: 23.5/6

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

Date of completion as reported by building yard on 11 January 1941: 15 August 1944

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

Months ahead/behind 11 January 1941 prediction: behind 2.6

Note

1. Part of Cleveland-class, preceded by Brooklyn-class, succeeded by Fargo-class. Laid down with yard number 534 on 8 December 1942, launched on 20 February 1944, commissioned on 22 December 1944, decommissioned on 30 June 1947, reclassified CLG-5 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 7 September 1960, reclassified CG-5 on 1 July 1975, decommissioned and stricken on 15 December 1979 and sunk while used as a target bij the South Korean submarine Lee Chun (SS 062) on 27 March 1999.  

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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