• Thumbnail for Chester-class cruiser
    The three Chester-class cruisers were the first United States Navy vessels to be designed and designated as fast "scout cruisers" for fleet reconnaissance...
    11 KB (1,052 words) - 09:34, 25 April 2024
  • "Chester" (song), an American Revolutionary War anthem composed by William Billings Chester-class cruiser HMS Chester, disambiguation page USS Chester...
    3 KB (385 words) - 22:04, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for USS Chester (CL-1)
    Chester (CS-1/CL-1) of the United States Navy was the first scout cruiser (CS) built for the Navy. In 1920, she was reclassified as a light cruiser (CL)...
    12 KB (1,212 words) - 17:00, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Town-class cruiser (1910)
    The Town class was a group of twenty-one light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) of the first half of the 20th Century...
    37 KB (3,731 words) - 12:28, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Birmingham (CL-2)
    USS Birmingham (CL-2) (category Chester-class cruisers)
    named for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, was a Chester-class scout cruiser, reclassified a light cruiser in 1920. Entering service in 1908, the ship became...
    9 KB (726 words) - 09:42, 15 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Omaha-class cruiser
    The Omaha-class cruisers were a class of light cruisers built for the United States Navy. They were the oldest class of cruiser still in active service...
    14 KB (1,357 words) - 11:15, 15 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for USS Chester (CA-27)
    Chester (CL/CA-27), a Northampton-class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy named after the city of Chester, Pennsylvania. Chester...
    16 KB (1,670 words) - 22:08, 4 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Northampton-class cruiser
    The Northampton-class cruisers were a group of six heavy cruisers built for the United States Navy, and commissioned between 1928 and 1931. The Northamptons...
    7 KB (408 words) - 16:24, 1 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of cruisers of the United States Navy
    publicly or in internal documentation. The Navy has 13 Ticonderoga-class cruisers in active service, as of 23 September 2023, with the last tentatively...
    75 KB (8,247 words) - 15:14, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Salem (CL-3)
    USS Salem (CL-3) (category Chester-class cruisers)
    USS Salem (CS-3/CL-3), Scout Cruiser No. 3, was a Chester-class scout cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the first Navy ship named for the city...
    9 KB (758 words) - 03:17, 23 October 2022
  • USS Detroit (CL-8) (1923) Attack on Pearl Harbor 1 of 6 Northampton-class heavy cruisers USS Northampton (CA-26) (1930) Doolittle Raid - Battle of Midway...
    43 KB (2,522 words) - 00:07, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Chester (1915)
    HMS Chester was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, one of two ships forming the Birkenhead subtype. Along with sister ship, Birkenhead, she...
    11 KB (1,011 words) - 18:02, 20 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for St. Louis-class cruiser
    The St. Louis-class cruisers were a class of three cruisers that served in the United States Navy at the beginning of the 20th century. Authorized in...
    11 KB (963 words) - 09:23, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scout cruiser
    § Scout cruisers (CS) Chester class – later re-classified as light cruisers (CL) The first three Omaha-class ships were also designated "scout cruisers" (CS)...
    4 KB (406 words) - 21:44, 23 February 2024
  • Caldwell-class destroyers Cassin-class destroyers Chester-class cruisers Clemson-class destroyers Colorado-class battleships Connecticut-class battleships...
    18 KB (305 words) - 09:10, 21 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy
    the term first class cruiser being used instead for both armoured cruisers and large protected cruisers. Thus, the first class cruisers built between the...
    35 KB (3,220 words) - 13:53, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bath Iron Works
    Denver class protected cruiser USS Cleveland (C-19) World War I Virginia-class battleship USS Georgia (BB-15), launched in 1904 Chester-class cruiser USS Chester (CL-1)...
    40 KB (4,280 words) - 18:37, 20 June 2024
  • fourth rate launched in 1743 and sold in 1767. HMS Chester (1915) was a Town-class light cruiser originally ordered for the Greek Navy in 1914 as Lambros...
    1 KB (259 words) - 14:59, 15 December 2021
  • Thumbnail for QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss
    Amphitrite-class monitors Asheville-class gunboats Chester-class cruisers Columbia-class cruisers Connecticut-class battleships Delaware-class battleships...
    33 KB (2,753 words) - 23:34, 5 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Philippine Sea order of battle
    battleship: Nagato 1 heavy cruiser: Mogami Screen 10 destroyers 2 Asashio-class (6 × 5 in. main battery): Michishio, Yamagumo 2 Kagerō-class (6 × 5 in. main battery):...
    31 KB (2,570 words) - 04:44, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for 3-inch/50-caliber gun
    Asheville-class gunboats mounted a single 3-inch/50 Mk 34 as their primary armament. Bainbridge-class destroyers Chester-class cruisers Connecticut-class battleships...
    28 KB (3,318 words) - 07:38, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chester W. Nimitz
    the lead ship of her class, is named after him. Nimitz, a German Texan, was born the son of Anna Josephine (Henke) and Chester Bernhard Nimitz on February...
    55 KB (5,396 words) - 00:26, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS St. Louis (CL-49)
    USS St. Louis, eighth of nine Brooklyn-class light cruisers, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the city of St. Louis, Missouri....
    50 KB (6,674 words) - 05:50, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing Sonic Cruiser
    The Boeing Sonic Cruiser was a concept jet airliner with a delta wing–canard configuration. It was distinguished from conventional airliners by its delta...
    21 KB (2,069 words) - 18:24, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of cruisers of World War II
    of the 1920s were originally classed as light cruisers until the London Treaty forced their redesignation. Heavy cruisers continued in use until after...
    99 KB (837 words) - 14:01, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Boston (1884)
    USS Boston (1884) (category Protected cruisers of the United States Navy)
    protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Atlanta as the Atlanta class, in...
    17 KB (1,689 words) - 03:23, 12 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Atlanta (1884)
    USS Atlanta (1884) (category Protected cruisers of the United States Navy)
    protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Boston as the Atlanta class, in...
    12 KB (1,270 words) - 08:34, 19 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Capital ship
    Alaska-class cruiser, Dutch Design 1047 battlecruiser and the Japanese Design B-65 cruiser, planned specifically to counter the heavy cruisers being built...
    13 KB (1,390 words) - 13:50, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
    USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (category Portland-class cruisers)
    USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. Launched in 1931,...
    70 KB (7,638 words) - 19:20, 14 June 2024
  • Inflexible Invincible-class battlecruiser Scrapped 1922  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Chester Chester-class cruiser Scrapped 1930 27 June...
    16 KB (344 words) - 19:12, 9 March 2024