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37k | Early war image, Post Pearl Harbor repairs. | USN | |
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120k | Undated, pre war image. | USN | |
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102k | Undated late war image, showing her in her final configuration. | USN | |
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82k | Undated, Starboard Bow image. | Tom Kermen | |
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Starboard quarter view, 1944, location unknown. U.S. Navy photo |
David Buell | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 29 June 1922. Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92817. |
USNHC | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) At Venice, Italy, 11 November 1923, dressed with flags in honor of King Victor Emanuel's birthday. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 54508. |
USNHC | |
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82k | 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. |
National Archives/Scott Dyben | |
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110k | Starboard Quarter view in transit through what appars to be the Gaillard Cut. From the collection of Gerald M. Charpentier of New Orleans, LA. Donated by his niece, Elaine C. Witty-Charpentier. | Elaine C. Witty-Charpentier. | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) In the harbor at San Diego, California, 10 January 1935. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 64610. |
USNHC | |
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Pearl Harbor Raid, December 1941 - Photograph of the western side of
Ford Island and ships in moorings offshore, taken from a Japanese Navy
plane during the attack. Ships are (from left to right): U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 50933. |
USNHC | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) Plan view of the ship's forward superstructure and bow area, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 18 February 1942. Note Detroit's tripod foremast, signal flag bins and 6"/53 guns in casemate mounts. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-28442. |
National Archives | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 15 August 1942. Note her anchor, anchor gear and 6"/53 guns. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. USS Preston (DD-379) is in the left background and YF-380 is in the far center distance. See Photo # 19-N-33052 (cropped) for a closer view of those two vessels, cropped from this image. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-33052. |
National Archives | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 August 1942. Note her after 6"/53 guns and men lounging on the fantail. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Destroyers in the background include USS Preston (DD-379), at right, and USS Conyngham (DD-371), at left. On the far side of the pier from them are USS Caldwell (DD-605), in the far center distance beyond Preston's bow, and USS Walke (DD-416), at left beyond Conyngham. YOS-1 is in the far right distance. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-33050. |
National Archives | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 16 August 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-33047. |
National Archives | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) departing Mare Island on 16 August 1942. She was under going repairs at the yard from 4 July to 16 August 1942. Navy Photo #4864-8-42 |
Darryl Baker | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) Off Port Angeles, Washington, 22 March 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-42678. |
National Archives | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 11 April 1944. Her camouflage is Design 3d in the Measure 31-32-33 series. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-63759. |
National Archives | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) Off Port Angeles, Washington, 14 April 1944. Her camouflage is Design 3d in the Measure 31-32-33 series. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-63828. |
National Archives | |
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USS Detroit (CL-8) Off San Francisco, California, following overhaul, 10 January 1945. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 45695. |
USNHC | |
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116k | Final refit photo of the Detroit at San Francisco Navy Yard on January 10, 1945. | USN | |
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Battleships in dry-dock; Tennessee
(BB-43) & California
(BB-44) taken between 8 May and 27 October 1946. This photo comes from the U.S.Naval Institute and has an accompanying photocopy identifying all of the surrounding ships. It does identify the two cruisers as Detroit (CL-8) (inboard) and Trenton (CL-11)(outboard). It also identifies two returned U.K. DEs: HMS Rupert (DE-96) outboard of Olympia (ex-C-6) (IX-40), and HMS Berry (DE-3) ahead of the cruisers, and visible in the California's photo (it's still wearing its British hull #--K312). The Naval Institute photo was taken at a later date, as more of the "packaging" on the two battleships had been completed. According to Tennessee's deck logs, she entered Drydock #5 with California on 8 May 1946. South Dakota (BB-57) (mid-stern section visible at upper left of photo) subsequently entered Drydock #4--the 1946 "Navy Day" program from the shipyard indicates that this had taken place by 27th October of that year. The four CLs that were scrapped in Drydock #4 at the Philadelphia NSY
were: Omaha (CL-4), Cincinnati
(CL-6), Raleigh (CL-7)
and Marblehead (CL-12). The remaining CLs; Detroit (CL-8), Trenton
(CL-11), Richmond (CL-9), Concord (CL-10)
and Memphis (CL-13) were all sold
to the Patapsco Scrap Co. of Baltimore. The sales bid (B-76-47AV T)
was opened on 6 Dec 46; the five ships were sold for $336,140 (or $67,228
each), and custody of the ships was transferred to Patapsco between
27 December 46 and 21 January 47. The "light colored objects" in front of the two cruisers might "possibly" be barbettes from the Illinois (BB-65). According to drawings in the 1945 "Gun Mount and Turret Catalog", these two items appear to be about the same diameter as the barbettes for the two BBs' Tennessee & California; 14"/50 triple gun turrets; inside diameter 31 feet, from the same source -- outside diameter would have been about 33 feet. The Illinois barbettes would have an inside diameter about 37 1/4 feet, outside diameter rather over 39 feet. |
USN photo submitted by Joe Lewis, courtesy of U.S.Naval Institute. Majority
text by Joe Lewis. Chuck Haberlein contributed to the (BB-65) i.d. with text. Photo added 08/07/07. |
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