Miss Louise Bushnell White, sponsor, stands on the launching platform to pose for pictures on 14 December 1920 after smashing the customary bottle of champagne on the USS Omaha (CL 4) at Todd Shipyards in Tacoma. Miss White was chosen to represent her home town of Omaha, Nebraska, partially because she was a descendant of David Bushnell, inventor of the Revolutionary War one man submarine. Posing with her on the platform are (order unknown) C.W. Wiley of Seattle, president of Todd Drydocks Inc, William H. Todd of NYC, president of Todd Shipyards Corporation and J.A. Eves, General Manager of Todd Shipyards. The Omaha, the 27th launching at the Todd Yard, is the longest ship built in the Northwest and it is the first to be launched bow first.

Tacoma Public Library, Marvin D. Boland Collection, BOLAND-B3345

Dress Ship while moored, port side to, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 24 May 1923.

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

USS Omaha (CL 4) In harbor, 8 December 1923.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 97970.

USS Omaha (CL 4) in Commencement Bay at the end of July 1924. The Omaha, a 550-foot 'scout cruiser', had steamed into the bay for a week's stay, accompanied by a squadron of six destroyers. The Omaha was the first of a ten ship class of 7,050 ton light cruisers. The ship was built at Todd Dry Dock of Tacoma and launched on 14 December 1920.

Tacoma Public Library, Marvin D. Boland Collection, BOLAND-B10599.

USS Omaha (CL 4) Passing the San Diego Naval Station, circa 1925-1926. Note the F5L seaplanes in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 43053.

Excellent photo of USS Omaha (CL 4), taken in San Diego Bay. Date is not stated, but from a photo collection which is all dated between 1925 and 1929.

U.S. Navy Photo.

USS Omaha Liberty Men at Lava Beds at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii in 1932.

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

View looking aft down the port side during Omaha's record setting run (at the time) from Honolulu to San Francisco. The run, which occurred in 1932, was completed in 75 Hours and 40 minutes.

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

View looking aft during Omaha's record setting run (at the time) from Honolulu to San Francisco. The run, which occurred in 1932, was completed in 75 Hours and 40 minutes.

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

As temporary flagship (she flies a four-star flag at the main) for Adm. Richard H. Leigh, the USS Omaha (CL 4) is off Diamond Head, Honolulu, T.H., 20 October 1932. Close investigation of the image reveals a black-hulled admiral’s barge in skids to port of her no.2 stack.

U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-CF-2142

USS Omaha (CL 4) Underway, circa the early 1930s. The original photograph is dated 20 October 1936, but it was actually taken prior to Omaha's 1933 overhaul, during which her topmasts were reduced and a "bathtub" machinegun platform was fitted atop her foremast.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 97971.

USS Omaha (CL 4) View of the ship's forward superstructure, taken after overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 29 August 1933. Note newly installed machine gun "bathtub" atop Omaha foremast, rangefinders and other fire control facilities on and about the mast, voice tubes running down from the masthead, 6"/53 guns in casemate mountings, and Battle Efficiency "E" painted on the pilothouse. Courtesy of Don S. Montgomery, USN (Retired).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 93507.

USS Omaha (CL 4) grounded in the Bahamas, 18 July 1937.

USS Omaha (CL 4) Aground in the Bahamas, 18 July 1937. Note lighthouse at right and vessels alongside Omaha.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 43061.

Aerial view of the USS Omaha (CL 4) released 10 March 1938, showing clearly the groups of .50 caliber antiaircraft machine guns in the foretop and on the after superstructure, and two Seagulls on her catapults.

U.S. National Archives, Photo #19-N-17951

Library of Congress, Photo No. LC-H22-D-7984

Odenwald Incident, November 1941 - USS Omaha (CL 4), in right center, standing by the German blockade runner Odenwald, which has a U.S. boarding party on board, in the South Atlantic, 6 November 1941. Photographed from USS Somers (DD 381).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 49935.

USS Omaha (CL 4) In New York Harbor, 10 February 1943.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-40594.

USS Omaha (CL 4) Off the New York Navy Yard, 10 February 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 97972.

Omaha (CL 4) underway at speed, as seen from a plane flying out of NAS Coco Solo, 19 March 1943.

U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-G-567157

USS Omaha (CL 4) recovers U-177 survivors after they had been rescued by one of the cruiser’s whaleboat crews, 6 February 1944.

U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-G-358559

USS Omaha (CL 4) during the invasion of Southern France, as seen from USS Philadelphia (CL 41) (one of the latter’s Curtiss SOC Seagulls can be seen in the right foreground), in an image received on 1 September 1944.

U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-G-256278

Moored, port side to, possibly Recife, Brazil, August 1945.

From the collection of PhoM1c Owen Nance.

Library of Congress, HAER PA,51-PHILA,709D—20

Scrapping ex-USS Omaha (CL 4) proceeds at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 10 January 1946. The ex-USS Raleigh (CL 7) is also being scrapped, lying next to the Omaha.

USS Omaha DANFS Ship's History Files