Editing Baltimore-class cruiser (section)

==Crew==
[[File:Crewmen in the Main Battery Plot of USS Canberra (CAG-2) off Vietnam, in March 1967 (USN 1142153).jpg|thumb|right|The crew of ''Canberra'' plotting target data]]

The size of the crew of a ''Baltimore''-class cruiser varied by era and by tactical situation. Different sources also differ on the numbers. Naturally, the crew sizes were larger during wartime. Some cruisers—including all three of the modified ''Albany'' class—were used as flagships and therefore housed an [[admiral]] and his staff.

At launch, during, and shortly after the war, the crews consisted of around 60 officers and about 1000 rank-and-file crewmen. When an admiral's staff was aboard during wartime, this number could swell to 80 officers and 1500 crewmen. On the ''Boston''s, the standard crew, even in peacetime and without an admiral's staff, was 80 officers and around 1650 crewmen. Because the ''Albany'' class was equipped almost exclusively for guided missiles, it required fewer crew than the ''Boston''s and was roughly comparable numerically to the basic ''Baltimore''.

Compared to today's crew sizes, these numbers seem high. The modern {{Sclass|Ticonderoga|cruiser|1}} is manned by about 400. These differences are mostly due to the much less manpower-intensive nature of modern weapon systems.