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Sacramento

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No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG19	Sacramento	403	Cramp, Philadelphia	4/1913	21.2.1914	4.1914	for disposal 2.1946

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1425
Displacement full, t	1592
Length, m	64.0 wl 69.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	3.50
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	950
Max speed, kts	12.5
Fuel, t	coal 428
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX, 2 x 1 - 47/40-45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I
Complement	163

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Project history

This ship was designed as a cheaper alternative to the Denver, Albany and Cincinnati classes of small cruisers, which in 1914 constituted the US seagoing gunboat force. The General Board observed that the cruisers were comfortable, were good sea boats, were not too fast, and had a fair radius of action, but that they had about twice the complement of a more efficient gunboat, and cost far too much to maintain.

Modernizations

None.

1.1946: 3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 12, 2 x 1 - 47/45 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Mk 1

Naval service

No significant events.