design dated 15 October 1919
Pensacola-class
The design was made by F.M. Hiatt a civilian employee of the Preliminary Design Office who made a design of a scout cruiser to be built under the Fiscal Year 1920 program of the U.S. Navy. It was a so-called schema C-1 gun arrangement I. For the C-design were three gun arrangements available for a ship with a hulls length varying between 600/620 feet. This design was never built but is part of a process ending in the Pensacola-class cruisers built under the Fiscal Year 1926.(1)
Technical details of the design are a displacement of 10.000 tons and as dimensions 620 (waterline) x 57 x 18.4 (normal) x 36.5 feet (depth amidships), freeboard stem 31.1, amidship 18.1 and stern 17.1 feet. Armament consisted of 7-20,3cm/8” 50 cal guns (1x3-bow, 2x2 aft ship), 2x2-53,3cm/21” torpedo tubes and 4-7,62cm/3” anti aircraft guns. Speed 36 knots.
Note
1. USS Pensacola (CL/CA-24) of the Pensacola-class heavy cruisers. Laid down by the New York Navy Yard, USA on 27 October 1926, launched on 25 April 1929, commissioned on 6 February 1930, stricken on 28 November 1945 and sunk while used as a target. Displacement 9,200 9standard) tons and as dimensions 170 (between perpendiculars)-178,46 (over all) x 19,89 x 4,93 (mean)-6,7 (maximum) metres or 558-585.6 x 65.3 x 16.2-22 feet and with a main armament consisted of 2x2&2x2-20,3cm/8” 55 cal guns. Speed 32,7 knots.
Source
Naval History and Heritage Command, Spring Styles Book 1911-1925. Drawing S-585-157.
