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USS OMAHA (CL-4)


       
Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - India - Sierra - Lima

CLASS - OMAHA
Displacement 7,050 Tons, Dimensions, 555' 6" (oa) x 55' 4" x 20' (Max)
Armament 12 x 6"/53, 2 x 3"/50AA, 10 x 21" tt.
Armor, 3" Belt, 1 1/2" Deck, 1 1/2 Conning Tower.
Machinery, 90,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Crew 458.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 06 DEC 1918 at Todd SB & DD Co, Tacoma, WA
Launched 14 DEC 1920
Commissioned 24 FEB 1923
Decommissioned 01 MAY 1945
Stricken 01 NOV 1945
Fate: Scrapped in FEB 1946 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard

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Omaha 28k Undated Port Bow view. USN
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Dress Ship while moored, port side to, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 24 May 1923.

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

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

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

USNHC
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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.

USNHC
Omaha 134k Starboard bow view, 1926 Jon Burdett
Omaha 83k

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.

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

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

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

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

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

National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.

Tracy White
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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.

USNHC
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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.

USNHC
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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.

USNHC
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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.

National Archives
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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.

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USS OMAHA (CL-4) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
CL-4 - SSN-692

Contact Name: Mr. Mel Schaefer
Address: 1113 Coach Rd Papillon, NE, 68046-2903
Phone: 402-592-0587
E-mail: None


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