Chester-class cruiser

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Class overview
USS Chester
Builders:	Fore River Shipyard Bath Iron Works
Succeeded by:	Omaha-class cruiser
Built:	1905–1907
In commission:	1908–1923
Completed:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Light cruiser
Displacement:	3,750 long tons (3,810 t)
Length:	423.1 ft (129.0 m)
Beam:	47.1 ft (14.4 m)
Draft:	16.8 ft (5.1 m)
Speed:	24 kn (27.6 mph; 44.4 km/h)
Complement:	359
Armament:	• 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns • 6 × 3 in (76.2 mm) guns • 2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

The Chester class of light cruisers were the first United States Navy vessels to be designed and designated as fast Scout cruisers for fleet reconnaissance. In 1920 the Scout Cruisers were redesignated Light Cruisers. The three ships were built to slightly different designs for the sake of comparison: Chester was the first major combatant in the USN to have steam-turbine propulsion, of the Parsons type; Salem received Curtis turbines and Birmingham traditional reciprocating steam engines.

Birmingham was the first ship in the world to launch an airplane, in 1910.

Ships

External links

Media related to Chester class cruisers at Wikimedia Commons

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Chester Birmingham Salem

Preceded by: None Followed by: Omaha class List of cruisers of the United States Navy

v t e United States naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	South Carolina Delaware Florida Wyoming New York Nevada Pennsylvania New Mexico Tennessee^C Colorado^C South Dakota^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Indiana Iowa^S Kearsarge Illinois Maine Virginia Connecticut

Battlecruisers	Lexington^X

Armored cruisers	New York^S Brooklyn^S Pennsylvania Tennessee

Light cruisers	Chester

Protected cruisers	Chicago^S Baltimore^S San Francisco^S Olympia^S Cincinnati^S Raleigh^S Montgomery^S Marblehead^S Columbia New Orleans Denver St. Louis

Destroyers	Bainbridge Truxtun Smith Paulding Cassin Aylwin O'Brien Tucker Sampson Caldwell Wickes Clemson^C

Submarines	Plunger B C D E F G H K L M-1^S AA-1 N O R

Auxiliaries	Recruit^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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