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New Orleans class cruiser

The New Orleans class of heavy cruisers was the last US Navy class[?] of multiple cruisers to be built before World War II, all first commissioned between 1934 and 1937. Three of the seven members were lost in the Battle of Savo Island[?] in 1942.

New Orleans (CL/CA-32)
Astoria (CA-34)
Minneapolis (CA-36)[?]
Tuscaloosa (CA-37)
San Francisco (CA-38)[?]
Quincy (CA-39)
Vincennes (CA-44)

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