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"Proposed 10,000 Ton Cruiser - Modified CL-49 & 50"

Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during the design of the first Cleveland class (CL-55) light cruisers.
This plan, dated 5 October 1939 and revised 31 October 1939, is for a ship of 10,000 tons standard displacement (normal displacement 11,790 tons) with a main battery of twelve 6"/47 guns and a secondary battery of twelve 5"/38 guns. Powerplant has 100,000 horsepower for a speed of 33.5 knots. Ship's dimensions are: waterline length 600'; waterline beam 61.5'; draft 21.75'.
This design is generally similar to the Cleveland class as built, but the final design featured increased waterline beam and numerous other changes.
Scale of the original drawings is 1/32" = 1'.

The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center .

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The 2009 U.S. Naval Academy Naval History Symposium Papers

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The first installment in the 2009 Symposium collaboration between the IJNH and the USNA History Department.

 

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Alexis Catsambis, Melissa Ryan, George Schwarz  

 

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The Spanish Regulations for Shipbuilding (Ordenanzas) of the  Seventeenth Century

 

Francisco Fernández-González

E.T.S. Ingenieros Navales

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

 

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Shipbuilders to the World:

Evolution and Revolution in Spanish and Chilean Shipbuilding from the Cold War to the 21st Century:

A Study in International Technology Transfer in the Naval Industries

 

Larrie D. Ferreiro

Defense Acquisition University

Fort Belvoir, VA   USA  

 

BOOK REVIEWS

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David Fairbank White, Bitter Ocean : The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945, Simon & Schuster, 2006.

 

Review by Kathleen Broome Williams

Cogswell Polytechnical College

 

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Peter Kirsch, Fireship: The Terror Weapon of the Age of Sail. Translated from the German by John Harland. Naval Institute Press, 2009.

 

Review by Robert Oxley

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

 

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John Perryman and Brett Mitchell. Australia’s Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965-72. Topmill Pty Ltd., 2007.

 

Review by John Darrell Sherwood,

Naval History and Heritage Command

 

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Charles R. Kubic and James P. Rife, Bridges to Baghdad : The U.S. Navy Seabees in the Iraq War. Thomas Publications, 2009.

 

Review by John Darrell Sherwood

Naval History & Heritage Command

 

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Jonathan R. Dull, The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British & French Navies, 1650-1815. University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

 

Review by Robert Oxley

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University  

 

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Edward S. Miller, Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor . Naval Institute Press, 2007.

 

Review by Jonathan Reed Winkler

 Wright State University

 

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Brian Vale, Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America ,

I.B. Tauris, 2008. 238 pp. Maps, illustrations, end notes, bibliography, index.

 

Review by Professor Charles Steele

Department of History, United States Air Force Academy

 

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Carl LaVO, The Galloping Ghost: The Extraordinary Life of Submarine Legend Eugene Fluckey, Naval Institute Press, 2007.

 

Review by Kathleen Broome Williams

Cogswell Polytechnical College

 

THE HISTORY OF OCEANOGRAPHY NEWSLETTER

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September 2008, Number 20

Edited by Professor Eric Mills,

Dalhousie University

Canada

 

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