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Early war image, Post Pearl Harbor repairs. |
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Undated, pre war image. |
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Undated late war image, showing her in her final configuration. |
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Undated, Starboard Bow image. |
Tom Kermen |
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Starboard quarter view, 1944, location unknown.
U.S. Navy photo
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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.
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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.
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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. |
National Archives/Scott Dyben |
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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.
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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):
USS Detroit (CL-8); USS Raleigh
(CL-7), listing to port after being hit by one torpedo; USS
Utah (AG-16), capsized after being hit by two torpedoes; and
USS Tangier
(AV-8).
Japanese writing in the lower left states that the photograph's reproduction
was authorized by the Navy Ministry.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 50933.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Final refit photo of the Detroit at San Francisco Navy Yard
on January 10, 1945. |
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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).
I have two documents from the 4th Naval District, and of course they
give different completion dates for the scrapping of these ships. The
first document (dated 1 Apr 46) indicates that scrapping was completed
on 27 February of that year; the second document (also dated 1 April
46) gives the completion date as 10 March 1946.
(My notes also indicate that scrapping was completed at the yard on
nine ex-destroyer types as of 29 March 46: Litchfield
(DD-336), Pruitt
(DD-347), Jouett
(DD-396), Clark
(DD-361), Balch
(DD-363), Sampson(DD-394),
Schley (DD-103),
Stringham
(DD-83) and Whipple
(DD-217).
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.
Note also that the attached photo distinctly shows that both cruisers
have all four funnels--I think it's an optical illusion that either
of these had had any of them removed.
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.
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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. |
