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USS NASHVILLE (CL 43)


     

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Bravo - Golf

CLASS - BROOKLYN
Displacement 9,475 Tons, Dimensions, 608' 4" (oa) x 61' 8" x 24' (Max)
Armament 15 x 6"/47, 8 x 5"/25, 8 x 0.5" 4 Aircraft.
Armor, 5" Belt, 6 1/2" Turrets, 2" Deck, 5" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 100,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 32.5 Knots, Crew 868.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 24 JAN 1935 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ
Launched 02 OCT 1937
Commissioned 06 JUN 1938
Decommissioned 24 JUN 1946
Stricken 9 JAN 1961
Transferred to the Chilean Navy 9 JAN 1951 and renamed CAPITAN PRAT (03)
Decommissioned 10 MAY 1982
Fate: Sold for scrap 29 APR 1983

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Combat Action Ribbon - Navy China Service Medal
Second Row - American Defense Service Medal w/"A" Clasp - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal (10)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Presidential Unit Citation - Philippine Liberation Medal


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Nashville
020835
435k Christening of Nashville (CL 43)  - Sponsors: Misses Anne and Mildred Stahlman, daughters of the President of the Nashville Banner Dale Hargrave
Nashville
0404343
94k

USS Nashville (CL 43) being launched at the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ on 2 October 1937. "The bottles broke, the crowd cheered and the band played, but the ship didn't budge - until several minutes later."

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, George D. McDowell Collection

Mike Green
Nashville 66k Good overhead showing details of the Brooklyn Class. USN
Nashville
0404336
79k

Undated late WW2 port bow photo of the USS Nashville (CL-43) off Sydney, NSW, Australia. Main deck mounted secondary guns 5”/25 gun tubs and her rebuilt bridge is distinctive from her original configuration.

Australian War Memorial, Photo No.3302682

Mike Green
Nashville
0404340
136k

USS Nashville being guided to a berth at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 5 October 1938 for a post-shakedown availability.

Temple Digital Archives, used for educational and non-commercial purpose.

John Chiquoine
Nashville 78k

USS Nashville (CL 43) In the Hudson River, off New York City, in 1939. The Palisade Amusement Park is in the right distance. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 68318

USNHC
Nashville 71k

USS Nashville (CL 43) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 1 April 1942. She is wearing Measure 12 (Modified) camouflage.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives - 19-N-28993

National Archives
Nashville
020833
62k USS Nashville (CL 43) (in the distance), as seen from the island of USS Hornet (CV 8) (looking aft) while part of the "Doolittle" battle group, 16 April 1942.

Photo taken off a 16mm film.

Image courtesy of Periscope Film
Nashville
0404334
195k View looking aft from the island of USS Hornet (CV 8), while en route to the mission's launching point. USS Gwin (DD 433) is coming alongside, as USS Nashville (CL 43) steams in the distance. Eight of the mission's sixteen B-25B bombers are parked within view, as are two of the ship's SBD scout bombers. Note midships elevator, torpedo elevator, arresting gear and flight deck barriers in the lower portion of the photo, and 1.1" quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount at left.

Naval History & Heritage Command photo (# NH 53289).

Tommy Trampp
Nashville
0404347
102k At 07:38 on the morning of 18 April 1942, while Task Force 18 was still about 650 nautical miles (1,200 km; 750 mi) from Japan (around 35°N 154°E), it was sighted by the Japanese picket boat No. 23 Nitto Maru, a 70-ton patrol craft, which radioed an attack warning to Japan. The boat was sunk by gunfire from USS Nashville. The chief petty officer who captained the boat killed himself rather than be captured, but five of the 11 crew were picked up by Nashville. The order to Nashville did not go out until 07:52. Heavy seas made hitting the picket boat difficult even with rapid fire, and it was not sunk until 08:23. Yu Chu
Nashville 184k 8 August 1942 photo showing the Nashville bombarding Kiska, Alaska. USN
Nashville 122k

USS Nashville (CL 43) - View on board the ship, looking aft from amidships on the starboard side. Taken on 11-13 May 1943, before or just after Task Force 18's 13 May bombardment of Japanese positions on Kolombangara and New Georgia islands. The ship immediately astern is USS St. Louis (CL 49). Note details of Nashville's after superstructure, main battery gun director, and the 1.1-inch quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount at left.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center - NH 97963

USNHC
Nashville 91k

1.1-inch quad anti-aircraft machinegun mounting Located on the starboard side amidships of USS Nashville (CL 43). Photographed 11-13 May 1943, before or just after the 13 May bombardment of Japanese positions on Kolombangara and New Georgia islands. Note the metal shroud installed around the barrels of this gun mount.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center - NH 97963 (cropped).

USNHC
Nashville 235k

Forward plan view of the USS Nashville (CL 43) at Mare Island on 30 July 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #5451-43

Darryl Baker
Nashville 122k

USS Nashville (CL 43) - Plan view amidships, looking aft along the starboard side, with the ship's forward superstructure emphasized. Taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 30 July 1943. Note the Mark 33 (lower, with rear toward the camera) and Mark 34 gun directors, with the antenna of a Mark 8 fire control radar atop the Mk. 34; antenna for a SK-1 search radar atop the foremast; lightly armored conning tower at the front of the bridge; floater nets atop the number three 6"/47 triple gun turret; and shipyard railway crane on the pier. Circled areas have recently received modifications.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives - 19-N-49139

National Archives
Nashville 241k

Plan view amidships looking aft of the USS Nashville (CL 43) at Mare Island on 30 July 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #5450-43.

Darryl Baker
Nashville 219k

After plan view of the USS Nashville (CL 43) at Mare Island on 30 July 1943. Note that hanger for scout plane is open.

U.S. Navy Photo #5453-43

Darryl Baker
Nashville 156k

Stern view of the USS Nashville (CL 43) departing Mare Island on 4 August 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #5622-43

Darryl Baker
Nashville 171k

Broadside view of the USS Nashville (CL 43) off Mare Island on 4 August 1943. She was in overhaul at the shipyard from 4 June until 7 August 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #5624-43.

Darryl Baker
Nashville 83k USS Nashville (CL 43) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 4 August 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives - 19-N-49135 National Archives
Nashville
0404336
79k

Port bow view of the USS Nashville (CL 43) off Sydney, NSW, Australia. The rebuilt bridge structure dates the photo as after her May-July 1943 Mare Island rebuild. The ship still retains her 5”/25 secondary guns in main deck tubs and quadruple 40mm Bofors are mounted on at both the forward and aft superstructures.

Australian War Memorial, Photo #302682

Mike Green
Nashville
0404301
114k

Here she is shown in measure 32/21D, a camouflage pattern that she only carried from sometime in the spring of 1944.

Caption corrected by Aryeh Wetherhorn.

John Spivey
Nashville
0404351
83k

Admiralty Islands. circa 1944. Starboard side view of two cruisers of Task Force 74, HMAS Australia (left) and USS Nashville. Note the difference in Camouflage schemes, Australia's an overall dark grey, probably G 10, and the American cruiser in Measure 32/21D.

Australian War Memorial, Photo #304880

USN
Nashville
0404330
1m

Caption reads:

"SC192648 General Douglas MacArthur walks to the bridge on one of the cruisers of the invasion fleet. Southwest Pacific Area. 22 April 1944. USS Nashville"

Dave Kerr
Nashville
0404331
77k

In the distance is USS Nashville firing at targets during the Hollandia assault during the week of 22 April 1944. Notice that the open camera shutter has caught three hot shells in motion just to the left of the ship.

NA USA Signal Corps 264436.

John Chiquoine
Nashville
0404348
131k Anchored in Sydney Harbor, July 1944. Yu Chu
Nashville
0404328
103k General MacArthur has a lighter moment with commanding officer Captain Spanagel aboard the USS Nashville, 8 September 1944, en route to the Morotai invasion. The island of Morotai was needed as a base of operation to support the liberation of the Philippines. General MacArthur would return to the Philippines aboard the USS Nashville on October 20, 1944.

Photo from the MacArthur Library and Museum thanks to Mr. James Nobel.

Bill Gonyo
Nashville
091907411
203k

USS Nashville (CL 43) receiving fuel from USS Saranac (AO 74) on the afternoon of 15 October 1944 as she steamed for Leyte Gulf in the Philippines with General Douglas MacArthur and his staff aboard. This underway replenishment saw the transfer of 81,727 gallons of fuel oil in just under 50 minutes, which Nashville burned through in about three and a half days. Sailors in the foreground of Nashville's deck are clustered around one of her paravanes, used to pull mine sweeping chains out from the ship's bow.

US National Archives photo # 80-G-289534, a US Navy photo now in the collations of the US National Archives in College Park, Maryland
Bill Gonyo
Nashville
0404329
128k Captain Charles Edward Coney (far left), Commanding Officer, and his staff greet General Douglas MacArthur as he boards the cruiser USS Nashville (CL 43) for the Leyte invasion to liberate the Philippine Islands in October 1944. To the right of MacArthur is CDR Thomas Corwin, Nashville's Executive Officer. The name of the gentleman shaking MacArthur's hand is unknown.

Photo was taken by Frank Prist of ACME News Service (Wide World Photos). Photo obtained from the MacArthur Library and Museum thanks to Mr. James Nobel.

Bill Gonyo
Nashville 70k

Leyte Invasion, October 1944 - General Douglas MacArthur (right, seen in profile) on the bridge of USS Nashville (CL 43), off Leyte during the landings there in late October 1944. Standing in the center (also seen in profile) is Lieutenant General George C. Kenney.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives - USA C-259

National Archives
Nashville
0404337
248k

Army General Douglas MacArthur and his staff leave Nashville via LCM on 20 October 1944 for his triumphant return to the Philippine Islands roughly two and a half years after he was evacuated during the Japanese invasion. Shortly after this photo was taken MacArthur waded ashore and gave his famous "People of the Philippines: I have returned" speech via a portable radio ashore before returning to the ship.

US Navy photo #80-G-289536 now in the custody of the US National Archives, College Park, Maryland.

National Archives
Nashville 69k

Leyte Invasion, October 1944 - General Douglas MacArthur's flagship, USS Nashville (CL 43), anchored off Leyte during the landings, circa 21 October 1944. Nashville wears camouflage Measure 33, Design 21d.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-374940.

National Archives/Scott Dyben
Nashville
0404339
185k

USS Nashville (CL 43) on 24 October 1944 anchored off Tacloban, Leyte, General Douglas MacArthur is shown boarding a PT boat from Nashville.

National Archives Photo #80-G-258488, courtesy of C. Lee Johnson, usndazzle.com.

Mike Green
Nashville
0404332
109k

Smoke from fire aboard USS Nashville, seen in the distance shortly after being damaged in combat off Mindoro, 13 December 1944.

NA USA Signal Corps 260126.

John Chiquoine
Nashville
0404333
95k Another photo just after being hit by a Kamikaze on 13 December 1944 off Mindoro. Ron Reeves
Nashville
0404341
120k

USS Nashville off Mindoro, 13 December 1944. Smoke pall from the kamikaze hit is still lingering.

National Archives photo #80-G-294526.

John Chiquoine
Nashville 128k

USS Nashville (CL 43) crewmen cleaning up the port side 5"/25 gun battery, after the ship was hit in that area by a Kamikaze on 13 December 1944, while en route to the Mindoro invasion. Note fire damage to the guns and nearby structure.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-K-6886.

National Archives/Scott Dyben
Nashville
0404342
116k

USS Nashville as seen from USS Russell at San Pedro, Leyte anchorage, 15 December 1944.

Photo by Ltjg Ed Klump.

John Chiquoine
Nashville 97k 25 March 1945 while steaming into Puget Sound. USN
Nashville 120k

USS Nashville (CL 43) Underway in Puget Sound, Washington, on 25 March 1945.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives - 19-N-80853

National Archives
Nashville
0404325
266k Starboard quarter view while underway, possibly in Puget Sound, 1945. Note the SC-1 on the fantail,
and the single catapult, typical of late-war cruiser modifications.
David Buell
Nashville
0404346
106k

The Supply Officer inspects Mess personnel while anchored in Shanghai, China sometime between 19 September an 17 November 1945.

NHHC Photo # 80-G-K-6744

Yu Chu
Nashville
0404338
266k USS Nashville (CL 43), October 1945, on Yangtze River Patrol, Whang-poo River, Shanghai, China, view from Whang-poo Pier, USS Rocky Mount (AGC 3) to the right. Robert Hurst
Chilean Navy CAPITAN PRAT (03)
(1951 - 1982)
Nashville
04043prat
20k Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón (Hacienda San Agustín de Puñual, Ninhue, Chile, 3 April 1848, - Iquique, 21 May 1879) Chilean sailor, military and lawyer. He is considered Chile's top naval hero. Son of Agustín Prat del Barril and Rosario Chacón Barrios.

He took part in several major naval battles during the War against Spain (1865-1871), including the naval Battle of Papudo in 1865, where the schooner Covadonga was captured.

During the Pacific War he commanded the corvette Esmeralda in the naval Battle of Iquique, in which he was killed.

Francisco Javier Santos Vazquez
Nashville 45k Undated starboard side of Nashville as Capitan Prat (03). Robert Hurst
Nashville 15k Seen as Capitan Prat, In service with the Chilean navy. Ferando Enrique Espinoza Diaz
Nashville
0404327
13k Starboard side view, date and location unknown. Robert Hurst
Nashville
0404326
23k Prat (ex-USS Nashville) at anchor circa 1953 Robert Hurst
Nashville
0404345
233k Three cruisers of the Chilean Navy head a formation during the 1970s. From left to right: Capitan Prat (ex-USS Nashville), Almirante Latorre (ex-HSwMS Gota Lejon), and O'Higgins (ex-USS Brooklyn) Yu Chu
Nashville
0404349
174k The Chilean cruisers Almirante Latorre (ex-HSwMS Gota Lejon),Capitan Prat (ex-USS Nashville), and O'Higgins (ex-USS Brooklyn). Yu Chu
Nashville
0404344
81k Underway, location unknown, in 1975. Yu Chu
Nashville
0404350
88k The ship's bell in a museum in Chile. Yu Chu

Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Class Final Rank Dates
Wilson, William Walter, CAPT 1908   06/06/1938 -
Wentworth, Ralph Strafford, CAPT 1912   01/01/1940 - 04/30/1941
Craven, Francis Sanderson, CAPT 1911   04/30/1941 - 09/30/1942
Spanagel, Herman Adolf, CAPT 1914   09/30/1942 - 04/24/1944
Coney, Charles Edward, CAPT 1918   04/24/1944 - 01/30/1945
Corwin, John Thomas, CDR 1927   01/30/1945 - 03/21/1945
MacOndray, Atherton, CAPT 1921-A RADM 03/21/1945 - 12/14/1945
Ford, Robert Stephens, CDR 1927 RADM 12/14/1945 - 06/24/1946

(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)


USS NASHVILLE (CL 43) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name:Mr. Ed Remler
Address: 5114 W 69th St. Prarie Village Ks. 66208
Phone:None
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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