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USS Trenton (CL-11) Underway off Bona Island in the Gulf of
Panama, 11 May 1943.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives #19-N-44436.
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Undated, Showing starboard mid-ships detail. |
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USS Trenton (CL-11) Photographed circa the mid-1920s.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 43751.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) in drydock, circa the mid-1920s. Photographed
by Gustave Freret. Note that Trenton appears to have hydrophone
fairings on both sides of her underwater hull, a short distance aft
of the stem. Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 76226.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) Flagship of Commander Light Cruiser Divisions,
Scouting Fleet, underway at sea in April 1927. She has the Assistant
Secretary of the Navy on board. Collection of Lieutenant Oscar W. Levy,
USN (Supply Corps)-Retired.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 94168.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) At anchor, possibly at San Diego, California,
circa the middle 1930s. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 64632.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) Underway at sea, 23 October 1935.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 50251.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) In Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, circa 1939.
Photographed by Tai Sing Loo. Trenton is carrying SOC floatplanes
on her catapults. Donation of the Oregon Military Academy, Oregon National
Guard, 1975.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 82489.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) Underway in the Gulf of Panama, 11 May 1943.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives #19-N-44440.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) Underway in the Gulf of Panama, 14 July
1944. She is wearing camouflage Measure 33, Design 2f.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives #19-N-68655.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) In San Francisco Bay, California, 11 August
1944. She is wearing camouflage Measure 33, Design 2f.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives #19-N-91697.
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Starboard side view, taken by Joe Stafford from a whale
boat while going ashore at Attu Island, Alaska, April 1945. In comparison
to the next photo, this one was taken prior to 12 APR as the Ensign is
not at half-mast.
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Starboard side view, Adak Harbor, 12 APR 1945. Note the
Ensign at half-mast due to the death of President Roosevelt |
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Broadside view of USS Trenton (CL-11) off Mare Island on 24
Aug 1945. She had been under repairs at the yard from 10 Aug to 24 Aug
1945.
U.S. Navy photo #6180-45
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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. |
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