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Alaska-class [r]: Two-ship class of 30,000 ton U.S. Navy "large cruisers" with 12" main battery, 27,500 ton displacement; not battlecruisers as sometimes described, but a bad design intended for carrier escort; essentially a super-Baltimore-class; strikingly attractive ships with no real role not better done by the Iowa-class