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USS CINCINNATI (CL-6)


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

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 13 DEC 1918 at Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co., Seattle WA
Launched on 23 MAY 1921
Commissioned 01 JAN 1924
Decommissioned 01 NOV 1945
Fate: Sold for scrap 27 FEB 1946.

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Cincinnati 131k Undated, seen here in company of another Omaha class cruiser. Note the masts have been removed from the one in the background. USN
Cincinnati
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66k Port bow view, date and location unknown. David Buell
Cincinnati 93k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) View looking up at the cruiser's mainmast in November 1923, just before she left the New York Navy Yard for speed trials off Rockland, Maine. View was taken from between the after smokestack and the mainmast. Note the extensive use of blocks on the mast rigging. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 69225.

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Cincinnati 80k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) In harbor, circa the mid-1920s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 63244.

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Cincinnati 68k

Vought O2U-1 "Corsair" floatplane (Bureau # A-7918) Suspended over a ship's catapult during the later 1920s. This plane, from Scouting Squadron SIX, is assigned to USS Cincinnati (CL-6). Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 100515.

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Cincinnati 63k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) Underway in harbor, circa the later 1930s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 67531.

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Cincinnati 143k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) Visits Portland, Oregon, circa the later 1930s. Photographed by the Angelus Commercial Studio, Portland. Collection of Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 86438.

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Cincinnati 132k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) view on deck, looking aft from the ship's bow, showing her forward 6"/53 gun turret and superstructure. Photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 4 July 1942. Recent alterations are marked and identified. Note Mark XXXII Mod. 1 Rangefinder on the bridge wings.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

National Archives/Scott Dyben
Cincinnati 55k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) underway off New York City, 8 July 1942.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

National Archives/Scott Dyben
Cincinnati 41k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) Off New York City, 8 July 1942.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-32591.

National Archives
Cincinnati 100k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) Off New York City, 9 July 1942.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-31170.

National Archives
Cincinnati 124k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) In New York Harbor, 22 March 1944.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-62459.

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Cincinnati 54k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) Off New York City, 22 March 1944.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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Cincinnati 137k

USS Cincinnati (CL-6) In New York Harbor, 22 March 1944.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-64188.

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USS CINCINNATI (CL-6) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Mr. George Christmas
Address: 4510 Nantucket Dr, Apt 7 Youngstown, OH, 44515-4440
Phone: None listed
E-mail: None


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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