USS Augusta (CA-31) (originally CL-31) was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, notable for service in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II, and for her occasional use as a presidential flagship carrying both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman under wartime conditions (including at the Newfoundland Conference). According to the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, she is named after Augusta, Georgia (rather than Augusta, Maine), and was sponsored by Miss Evelyn McDaniel of that city.
Namesake: Augusta,Georgia, United States
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
Laid down: 2 July 1928
Launched: 1 February 1930
Commissioned: 30 January 1931
Decommissioned: 16 July 1946
Struck: 1 March 1959
Honours and
awards: Three Battle stars
Presidential flagship
Fate: Scrapped in 1960
General characteristics
Class and type: Northampton-class heavy cruiser
Displacement: 9,050 tons (9,200 metric tons)
Length: 600 ft 3 in (182.96 m)
Beam: 66 ft 1 in (20.14 m)
Draft: 16 ft 4 in (4.98 m)
Speed: 32.7 knots (60.6 km/h)
Complement: 735 officers and enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems: CXAM-1 RADAR from 1940[1]
Armament:
9 × 8 in (203 mm) guns
8 × 5 in (127 mm) guns[2]
8 × .30 calibre (7.62 mm) guns
6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
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