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Undated Port Bow view. |
USN |
0400415 |
58k |
Dress Ship while moored, port side to, Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada, 24 May 1923.
National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.
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Tracy White |
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92k |
USS Omaha (CL 4) In harbor, 8 December 1923.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 97970.
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USNHC |
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116k |
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.
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USNHC |
0400416 |
476k |
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.
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David Buell |
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134k |
Starboard bow view, 1926 |
Jon Burdett |
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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.
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USNHC |
0400414 |
60k |
USS Omaha Liberty Men at Lava Beds at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
in 1932.
National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.
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Tracy White |
0400412 |
29k |
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.
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Tracy White |
0400413 |
56k |
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.
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Tracy White |
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127k |
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.
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USNHC |
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59k |
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.
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USNHC |
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71k |
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.
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USNHC |
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114k |
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.
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National Archives |
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68k |
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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USNHC |
0401220 |
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Ex-Marblehead
(CL 12) being scrapped in Dry Dock No. 4 at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard on January 10, 1946. To the left is ex-Cincinnati
(CL 6), behind left is ex-Raleigh
(CL 7) and behind right is ex-Omaha
(CL 4).
Library of Congress, HAER PA,51-PHILA,709D—20
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Mike Green |
0401221 |
166k |
Scrapping of ex-Marblehead
(CL 12), ex-Cincinnati
(CL 6), ex-Omaha
(CL 4), and ex-Raleigh
(CL 7). Naval Shipyard Philadelphia. February 18, 1946. |
Mike Green |
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank |
Final Rank |
Dates |
| Hanrahan, David Carlisle, CAPT |
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02/24/1923 - 06/14/1924 |
| Horne, Frederick Joseph, CAPT |
ADM |
06/14/1924 - 01/16/1926 |
| Cole, Cyrus Willard, CAPT |
RADM |
01/16/1926 - 08/25/1927 |
| Buchanan, Allen, CAPT |
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08/25/1927 - 06/11/1929 |
| Downes, John, CAPT |
RADM |
11/06/1929 - 05/22/1930 |
| Pickens, Andrew Calhoun, CAPT |
RADM |
05/22/1930 - 05/14/1932 |
| Dowell Jr., Jonathan Stuart, CAPT |
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05/14/1932 - 06/04/1934 |
| Woods, James Sterett, CAPT |
|
06/04/1934 - 12/14/1935 |
| Jones, Herbert Aloysius, CAPT |
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12/14/1935 - 09/10/1936 |
| Mecleary, Howard Blaine, CAPT |
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09/10/1936 - 01/17/1938 |
| Lind, Wallace Ludwig, CAPT |
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01/17/1938 - 02/01/1939 |
| Davidson, Lyal Ament, CAPT |
VADM |
02/01/1939 - 09/01/1939 |
| Powell, Paulus Prince, CAPT |
RADM |
09/01/1939 - 10/15/1941 |
| Chandler, Theodore Edson, CAPT |
RADM |
10/15/1941 - 04/1943 |
| Leffler Jr., Charles Doyle, CAPT |
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04/1943 - |
| Tillson, Elwood Morse, CAPT |
|
03/10/1944 |
| Freseman, William Langfitt, CAPT |
|
06/23/1945 |
| Lucas, Albert Davis, CDR |
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09/24/1945 - 11/01/1945 |
