U.S.S. Nashville
CL-43
1943
(Neptun 1342a)
- Class: Brooklyn - 7 light cruisers of 1933-34
- Displacement: 9,475 tons
- Dimensions: 600(wl) 608.5(oa) x 61.75 x 24 ft.
- Machinery: 4-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 100,000 = 34 knots
- Armament: 15-6"/47 (5x3), 8-5"/25 (8x1), 24-40mm (4x4+4x2), 20-20mm (20x1) A.A. guns; 4 aircraft
- Armor 5" belt, 6.5" turrets, 2" deck, 5" conning tower
- Complement: 868
- Builder: New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, NJ
- Keel Laid: 24 Jan 1935
- Launched: 2 Oct 1937
- Commissioned: 6 Jun 1938
- Decommissioned: 24 Jun 1946
- Sold: Chile (Capitan Prat) 9 Jan 1951
- Actions: Nashville earned 10 Battle Stars for WW2 service in the Pacific, including the Doolittle raid, New Guinea, Leyte (severely damaged by Kamikaze 13 Dec 1944), Mindoro, Borneo, Pacific raids 1943-44.
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