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NAVY'S NEW FAST SCOUT CRUISERS
The above picture shows the completed appearance of our new scout cruisers, the first of which, the Omaha (CL 4) was launched at Tacoma, Washington, in the middle of last month.
These ten scout cruisers will be named the Omaha, Milwaukee (CL 5), Cincinnati (CL 6), Raleigh (CL 7), Detriot (CL 8), Richmond (CL 9), Concord (CL 10), Trenton (CL 11), Marblehead (CL 12) & Memphis (CL 13) ...... |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE.
Photo from The Alliance Herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922, 25 January 1921, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Undated, pre-war image, showing Forward part of
ship. |
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Undated, Starboard side view at San Francisco
(Alcatraz in background). |
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) At Marseille, France, during the
1920s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77177.
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) Steaming past the bow of another
light cruiser, off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the later 1920s.
Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 64637.
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) At anchor in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 26
April 1930. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 64626.
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USS Los Angeles (ZR 3) With the Navy blimps J 2
and ZMC 2, flying over USS Raleigh (CL 7) and
another light cruiser, during maneuvers off Atlantic City, New
Jersey, 11 October 1930. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 65298.
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) Anchored in San Diego harbor,
California, 21 October 1933. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 64621.
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U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. |
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Balboa Harbor, Panama Canal Zone - Aerial photograph
taken 23 April 1934, with U.S. Fleet cruisers and destroyers
moored together. Ships present include (left to right in lower
left):
USS
Elliot (DD 146);
USS
Roper (DD 147);
USS Hale
(DD 133);
USS
Dorsey (DD 117);
USS Lea
(DD 118);
USS
Rathburne (DD 113);
USS
Talbot (DD 114);
USS
Waters (DD 115);
USS Dent
(DD 116);
USS
Aaron Ward (DD 132);
USS
Buchanan (DD 131);
USS
Crowninshield (DD 134);
USS
Preble (DD 345); and
USS
William B. Preston (DD 344).
(left to right in center):
USS
Yarnall (DD 143);
USS
Sands (DD 243);
USS
Lawrence (DD 250);
(unidentified destroyer);
USS Detroit (CL 8),
Flagship, Destroyers Battle Force;
USS Fox
(DD 234);
USS
Greer (DD 145);
USS
Barney (DD 149);
USS
Tarbell (DD 142); and
USS Chicago (CA 29),
Flagship, Cruisers Scouting Force.
(left to right across the top):
USS
Southard (DD 207);
USS
Chandler (DD 206);
USS
Farenholt (DD 332);
USS
Perry (DD 340);
USS
Wasmuth (DD 338);
USS
Trever (DD 339);
USS
Melville (AD 2);
USS
Truxtun (DD 229);
USS
McCormick (DD 223);
USS
MacLeish (DD 220);
USS
Simpson (DD 221);
USS
Hovey (DD 208);
USS Long
(DD 209);
USS
Litchfield (DD 336);
USS
Tracy (DD 214);
USS
Dahlgren (DD 187);
USS
Medusa (AR 1);
USS Raleigh (CL 7), Flagship, Destroyers Scouting Force;
USS
Pruitt (DD 347); and
USS J.
Fred Talbott (DD 156);
USS
Dallas (DD 199);
(four unidentified destroyers);
and
USS Indianapolis (CA 35),
Flagship, Cruisers Scouting Force.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives. |
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USS Raleigh on the coast of Spain.
In 1936-38, she was flagship of Squadron 40-T which operated off
Spain during that nation's bloody civil war. Note the Flag
Officers pennant flying from the top of the after mast. |
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Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 - USS Raleigh (CL 7)
is kept afloat by a barge lashed alongside, after she was
damaged by a Japanese torpedo and a bomb, 7 December 1941. The
barge has salvage pontoons YSP-14 and YSP-13 on board. The
capsized hull of USS
Utah (AG 16) is visible astern of Raleigh.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-19938.
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Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 - USS Raleigh (CL 7)
being kept afloat by a salvage barge moored to her port side,
after she had been torpedoed and damaged by a bomb during the
Japanese raid.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives.
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USS
Cassin (DD 372), at right, capsized, and USS
Downes (DD 375), under salvage in Drydock Number One
at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 27 January 1942. They had been
wrecked during the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid. Also in
the drydock is USS Raleigh (CL 7), which was under
repair for torpedo damage received on 7 December.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 54563.
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USS
Cassin (DD 372), at right, and USS
Downes (DD 375), under salvage in Drydock Number One
at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 5 February 1942, the day Cassin
was righted from her previous position capsized against Downes.
They had been wrecked during the 7 December 1941 Japanese air
raid. Also in the drydock is USS Raleigh (CL-7), which
was under repair for torpedo damage received on 7 December.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 54564
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Photo Caption: "Broadside view of damage to Raleigh
caused by torpedo explosion between frames 53 and 58 on the port
side. Photo taken 3 January 1942."
National Archives, San Francisco Branch, Mare Island Naval
Shipyard General Correspondence files, 1941-47
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Photo Caption: "View looking along port outboard shaft showing
how side of ship is indented due to bomb explosion in water.
Exit hole covered by patch is at frame 112."
The box in the upper right of the photo is the patch they're
referring to.
National Archives, San Francisco Branch, Mare Island Naval
Shipyard General Correspondence files, 1941-47
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USS
Indianapolis (CA 35)- Closeup view of her forward
half, from the port side, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 19 April
1942, following overhaul. Note details of her forward main
battery gun director, with an "FC" radar antenna on its top,
aircraft catapult, and .30 caliber machinegun mounted on the
bridge wing railing. USS Raleigh (CL 7) is in the
background.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives - 19-N-29301.
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USS
Indianapolis (CA 35)- Closeup view of her after
half, from the port side, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 19 April
1942, following overhaul. Note her SOC seaplanes, 5"/25 guns and
ready service ammunition, after smokestack, searchlights,
"horse" collar emergency life float alongside the railing in
lower right center and top edge of armor belt. USS Raleigh
(CL 7) is in the background.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives - 19-N-29300
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USS
Indianapolis (CA 35) - Closeup view of her well deck
area, from the port side, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 19 April
1942, following overhaul. Note her forward smokestack,
catapults, and Curtiss SOC Seagull aircraft. USS Raleigh (CL
7) is in the background.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives - 19-N-29299
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 6 July 1942, following repair of combat damage and
an overhaul.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-30915.
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 6 July 1942, following repair of combat damage and
an overhaul.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-30916.
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Port quarter view taken at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 15 April
1943.
U.S. Navy photo
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Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme
intended for light cruisers of the CL-7 class.
This plan shows the ship's port side, stern, superstructure ends
and exposed decks. It is marked: Approved by E.W. 19 August 1943
This pattern was worn by USS Raleigh (CL 7).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives.
National Archives photo #80-G-156812
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Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme
intended for light cruisers of the CL-7 class.
This plan shows the ship's starboard side, stern, superstructure
ends and exposed decks. It is marked: Approved by E.W. 19 August
1943 This pattern was worn by USS Raleigh (CL 7).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives.
National Archives photo #80-G-156813
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard,
Bremerton, Washington, 25 May 1944, following overhaul. The ship
is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 1d.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-65901.
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard,
Bremerton, Washington, 25 May 1944, following overhaul. The ship
is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 1d.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-65903.
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USS Raleigh (CL 7) In Massacre Bay, Attu Island,
Aleutians, 6 September 1944. The ship is painted in camouflage
Measure 32, Design 1d.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 97394.
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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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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. |
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