Preliminary design of an American scout cruiser dated 9 March 1916

Design scout crruiser. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

American Omaha-class light cruisers. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Sent to the Office of the Secretary of the Navy in early March 1916 as a result of the General Boards’s meeting of 19 Ocrober 1915, after the design was modified approved by the Navy Department on 22 April 1916 and used as basic design for thr Omaha scout cruiser-class built under the Fiscal Year 1917. Displacement 6,750 tons and as dimensions and as dimension 550.0 (on waterline) x 55.4 (on waterline) x 13.0 feet. Turbine reduction gear populsion and 4 boiler rooms. Range 10 knots/10,000 nautical miles. Armament of 6x-6” guns, 21” twin deck type 2 torpedo tubes, 2-3” high power anti aircraft guns and 2 automatic anti aicraft guns. Main side belt armor extreme width 19’ amidships, depth below waterline 6.0’ Conning tower proper and tube thickness 60”s.t.s., fire control tower thickness 50”s.t.s. Protective deck total thickness 60”.

Normal displacement 6,850 tons included:

Hul complete and with fittings 3,213 tons

Protection 288 tons

Steam engineering 1,636 tons

Reserve feed 2/3 supply 100 tons

Battery 210 tons

Ammunition and 2/3 ordnance stores 209 tons

Equipment and 2/3 equipment stores 183 tons

Outfit and 2/3 stores 205 tons

Oil fuel, 2/3 fuell supply 800 tons

Source

Bureau of Ships Spring Styles Book 1 1911-1925 S-584-170.