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The six that were completed as or converted into guided missile cruisers were reactivated during the 1950s and then served into the 1970s.

All non-converted ships were sold off from the reserve fleet for scrapping beginning in 1959. None were recommissioned for the Korean War, as they required a crew almost as large as the Baltimore-class ships, and those ships were reactivated instead. They suffered from increasing stability problems as anti-aircraft armament and additional radar was added during the war.

Except for Manchester, which remained in service until 1956, and the guided missile cruisers all of these cruisers were decommissioned by 1950. All of these warships, though hard worked in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, and in some cases heavily damaged in combat, survived the war. The Cleveland-class cruisers served mainly in the Pacific Fleetduring World War II, especially in the Fast Carrier Task Force, but some of them served off the coasts of Europe and Africa in the U.S. Technical drawing of a Cleveland-class cruiser. Following the naming convention at the time, all the ships completed as cruisers were named for US cities and towns. Of the 27 Cleveland-class cruisers that were commissioned, one ( Galveston) was completed as a guided missile cruiserand five were later modified as Galveston and Providence-class guided missile cruisers. ĥ2 light cruisers of this class were originally planned, but nine of them were completed as the light aircraft carriers of the Independence class, and two of them were completed to a somewhat different design, with more compact superstructures and just a single stack. Navy designed the Cleveland class of light cruisersfor World War II with the goal of increased cruising range, anti-aircraft armament, torpedo protection, etc., compared with earlier U.S.

Cleveland-class Light Cruiser Afilliation