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USS HONOLULU (CL-48)


       
Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Echo - Kilo - Juliet


Patch image contributed by Mike Smolinski
CLASS - BROOKLYN
Displacement 9,650 Tons, Dimensions, 608' 4" (oa) x 61' 9" 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
Launched 26 AUG 1937
Commissioned 15 JUN 1938
Decommissioned 03 FEB 1947
Fate: Sold as scrap to Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore, Maryland on 12 OCT 1959

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Honolulu 62k Undated, pre-war image. USN
Honolulu 79k Starboard quarter view while underway in 1938. Robert Hirst
Honolulu
0404820
100k USS Honolulu (CL-48) at Portsmouth, England, September 1938 Robert Hirst
Honolulu 18k Port side view taken on 30th January, 1942, location unknown. Note the searchlight platform and wide bridge (Caption updated by Bob Hirst). USN
Honolulu 75k Undated, Overhead Pre War showing details of class. USN
Honolulu 64k USS Sabine (AO-25) refueling USS Honolulu (CL-48), date and place unknown. Auke Visserīs ESSO Tanker web site
Honolulu 78k Post card, Remembering her Shakedown cruise in 1938. Jesse P. Mannix
Honolulu 111k

In Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, 14 July 1939. The Aloha Tower is in the right background.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives #80-G-451205.

Scott Dyben
Honolulu 123k

USS Honolulu (CL-48) operating off Hawaii on 5 November 1941, with her aircraft recovery mat draped over her stern. The ship is painted in dark Measure 1 camouflage, but her boats are still in peacetime light grey.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-279383.

Scott Dyben
Honolulu 122k

USS Honolulu (CL-48), at left Returning from the Battle of Kula Gulf, at 0810 hrs on 6 July 1943. Also visible are USS St. Louis (CL-49), at right, and a Fletcher class destroyer. Photographed from USS Nicholas (DD-449). The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 83012.

Fred Weiss
Honolulu 131k

Battle of Kolombangara, 13 July 1943 - USS Honolulu (CL-48) in Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, for temporary repair of damage received when she was torpedoed in the bow during the Battle of Kolombangara. USS Vireo (AT-144) is assisting the damaged cruiser. Note billboard on the hillside beyond Honolulu's collapsed bow. See Photo # 80-G-259446 (cropped) for a close-up view of this sign.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #NH 83012.

Jerry Mason/Scott Dyben
Honolulu 123k

Battle of Kolombangara, 13 July 1943 - Collapsed bow of USS Honolulu (CL-48), after she was torpedoed in the Battle of Kolombangara. Photographed while she was under repair at Tulagi on 20 July 1943. Note anchor chain and other foredeck details.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives #80-G-259422.

Scott Dyben
Honolulu 79k

USS Honolulu (CL-48) underway near Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 7 August 1943, en route to Pearl Harbor for battle damage repairs. She has been fitted with a short false bow as a temporary replacement for that lost in the Battle of Kolombangara, 13 July 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives #80-G-259466.

Scott Dyben/Jerry Mason
Honolulu
0404821
51k Port bow view while underway in late 1943 or 1944, location unknown. Robert Hirst
Honolulu 193k

Stern view of the USS Honolulu (CL-48) off Mare Island on 12 November 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #7618-43.

Darryl Baker
Honolulu 243k

Broadside view of the USS Honolulu (CL-48) off Mare Island on 12 November 1943 near the conclusion of her overhaul at the yard. She was under repairs from 6 Sep to 16 Nov 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #7620-43.

Darryl Baker
Honolulu 167k

Bow view of the USS Honolulu (CL-48) off Mare Island on 12 November 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #7622-43.

Darryl Baker
Honolulu 126k

USS Honolulu (CL-48) in a south Pacific port, probably during the spring of 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 2c. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 10 July 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-K-1637.

Fred Weiss
Honolulu 123k

Invasion of Leyte, October 1944 - USS Honolulu (CL-48) beached off Leyte on 21 October 1944, after she had been torpedoed. A fleet tug (ATF) is alongside.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives 80-G-289685.

Scott Dyben
Honolulu 157k Photo shows ship in dry dock in Norfolk, VA for repair after being struck by aerial torpedo off the Philippines on 20 OCT 1944. USN

USS HONOLULU (CL-48) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Mr. Glenn C Willmann
Address: 1811 Pine St Highland, IL, 62249-2525
Phone: 618-654-9767
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.


Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Cruiser Pages By Andrew Toppan.
USS Honolulu CL-48/SSN-718 Reunion Assn.
Pearl Harbor Attack - USS Honolulu Action Report from the Naval Historical Center.

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