USS St. Louis (CL-49), the lead ship of her class of light cruiser, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Commissioned in 1939, she was very active in the Pacific during World War II, earning eleven battle stars.

She was deactivated shortly after the war, but was recommissioned into the Brazilian Navy as Almirante Tamandaré in 1951. She served until 1976, and sank under tow to the scrappers in 1980.

Name:	St. Louis
Namesake:	City of St. Louis, Missouri
Ordered:	13 February 1929
Awarded:	16 October 1935
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia
Cost:	$13,196,000 (contract price)
Laid down:	10 December 1936
Launched:	15 April 1938
Sponsored by:	Miss Nancy Lee Morrill
Commissioned:	19 May 1939
Decommissioned:	20 June 1946
Struck:	22 January 1951
Nickname(s):	"Lucky Lou"
Honors and awards:	11 × battle stars
Fate:	Sold to Brazil on 29 January 1951
General characteristics (as built)[1][2]
Class and type:	St. Louis-class light cruiser
Displacement:	10,000 long tons (10,000 t) (standard) 13,327 long tons (13,541 t) (max)
Length:	608 ft 8 in (185.52 m)
Beam:	61 ft 5 in (18.72 m)
Draft:	19 ft 10 in (6.05 m) (mean) 24 ft (7.3 m) (max)
Installed power:	8 × Steam boilers 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 × geared turbines 4 × screws
Speed:	32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)
Complement:	868 officers and enlisted
Armament:	15 × 6 in (150 mm)/47 caliber Mark 16 guns (5x3) 4 × twin 5 in (130 mm)/38 caliber anti-aircraft guns 8 × caliber 0.50 in (13 mm) machine guns
Armor:	Belt: 3 1⁄4–5 in (83–127 mm) Deck: 2 in (51 mm) Barbettes: 6 in (150 mm) Turrets: 1 1⁄4–6 in (32–152 mm) Conning tower: 2 1⁄4–5 in (57–127 mm)
Aircraft carried:	4 × SOC Seagull floatplanes
Aviation facilities:	2 × stern catapults
General characteristics (1945)[3][4]
Armament:	15 × 6 in (150 mm)/47 caliber Mark 16 guns (5x3) 4 × twin 5 in (130 mm)/38 caliber anti-aircraft guns 4 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 6 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 18 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons

Scale 1:1

Notes:

• This project built using edited default texture to make the color more accurate
• Railings are not present because of inconsistency (e.g cannot put iron bars on slabs)
• Missing rangefinder on 2nd turret (All rendered images), already fixed on other picture
• Some details were missing due to lack of references

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