Salt Lake City

U.S.S. Salt Lake City

CA-25

1944

(Neptun 1336aT)

Class: Pensacola - 2 heavy cruisers of 1924
Displacement: 9,100 tons
Dimensions: 570(wl) 585.75(oa) x 65.25 x 16.25 ft.
Machinery: 4-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 107,000 = 32.7 knots
Armament: 10-8"/55 (2x3+2x2), 8-5"/25 (8x1), 24-40mm (6x4), 17-20mm AA guns
Complement: 1,200

Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, NJ
Keel Laid: 9 Jun 1927
Launched: 23 Jan 1929
Commissioned: 11 Dec 1929
Decommissioned: 29 Aug 1946

Actions: Doolittle raid, Guadalcanal-Tulagi, Cape Esperance (damaged), Komandorski Is. (damaged), Attu, Gilbert Is., Kwajalein, Leyte, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Pacific raids 1942-45. Shown in Measure 33/14D Light Pattern System camouflage. Bikini target ship July 1946. Sunk 25 May 1948.

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