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USS VINCENNES (CA-44)

CLASS - NEW ORLEANS
Displacement 9,950 Tons, Dimensions, 588' 0" (oa) x 61' 9" x 22' 6" (Max)
Armament 9 x 8"/55, 8 x 5"/25, 8 x 0.5" 4 Aircraft.
Armor, 5" Belt, 8" Turrets, 2 1/4" Deck, 5" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 107,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 32.0 Knots, Crew 800.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 02 JAN 1934 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company's Fore River plant, Quincy, MA
Launched 21 MAY 1936
Commissioned 24 FEB 1937
Fate: Sunk by Japanese gunfire 09 AUG 1942 during the Battle of Savo Island.
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USS Vincennes (CA-44) Making 10.74 knots during trials off Rockland, Maine, 12 January 1937. Photographed while the ship was running south, at 12:58 PM.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives - 19-N-17183

 National Archives
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USS Vincennes (CA-44) Underway at 22.03 knots while on trials off Rockland, Maine, 12 January 1937. The photograph was taken while the ship was running south at 3:47 PM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 50844

 USNHC
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USS Vincennes (CA-44) Steaming at high speed, circa February 1937. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland, 1984.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 95303

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USS Vincennes (CA-44) at Portsmouth, England, in June 1937. The ship in the left distance is the catapult trial's ship HMS Pegasus (ex-HMS Ark Royal).		 Robert Hurst
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USS Vincennes (CA-44) Passing through the Panama Canal on 6 January 1938, while en route to join the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific. Note crewmen on her deck, watching the airplane from which the photograph was taken.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 50845

 USNHC
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USS Vincennes (CA-44) At Pearl Harbor, circa 26-28 May 1942, prior to departing to take part in the Battle of Midway. A Curtiss SOC floatplane is in the left foreground.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-66128

 National Archives
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USS Vincennes (CA-44) Underway during tactical exercises in Hawaiian waters, 8 July 1942.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives - 80-G-10116

 National Archives
USS VINCENNES (CA-44) History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
CA-44 - CL-64
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Hazegray & Underway Cruiser Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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