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Christening of the USS Mobile (CL 63) by Mrs.
Harry T. Hartwell, wife of the Commissioner of Mobile, Alabama. |
Dale Hargrave |
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Photo caption "NKI - NORFOLK, VA. MAY 15--The cruiser Mobile
sliding down they ways of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock here today. The ship as launched with very little of the
usual fanfare. (US NAVY PHOTO BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)(AP WIREPHOTO
WCA61917USN) 1942 |
Tommy Trampp |
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Another photo of Mobile being launched. |
Ron Reeves |
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News story about the launching of the Mobile. |
Ron Reeves |
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late war, final appearance. |
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Off the Norfolk Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, Virginia, 14 April 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98164.
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April 14, 1943 as completed, Taken at the same time as #2 above. |
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Off the Norfolk Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, Virginia, 14 April 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98165.
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Plan view Starboard side, Mare Island, CA, 18 July 1943
U.S. Navy Photo Photo #5211-43
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Pieter Bakels |
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Plan view midships looking aft, Mare Island, CA, 18 July 1943
U.S. Navy Photo Photo #5209-43
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Pieter Bakels |
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 18 July 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98168.
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Broadside view of the USS Mobile (CL 63) off Mare Island
Navy Yard on 18 July 1943. She was departing the yard after a
short overhaul which started on 30 June and ended 18 July 43. |
Mare Island / Darryl Baker |
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Plan view amidships, looking aft,
taken from a pierside crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 18 July 1943. Circles mark recent alterations to the
ship. Note: antennas for SG radar atop the fore and main masts;
Mark 34 and Mark 37 gun directors, with antennas for Mark 8 and
Mark 4 radars atop them; fully-equipped life rafts.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98169.
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Mark 34 Gun Director, with antenna for a Mark 8 ("FH") Fire
Control Radar mounted on top of the forward superstructure of USS
Mobile (CL 63), at the the Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 18 July 1943. This view is cropped from Photo # NH
98169.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 84813.
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Forward plan view of the USS Mobile (CL 63) at Mare
Island on 18 July 1943. |
Mare Island / Darryl Baker |
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Plan view amidships, looking forward,
taken from a pierside crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 18 July 1943. Circles mark recent alterations to the
ship.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98171.
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Plan view aft, taken from a pierside
crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 18 July 1943.
Circles mark recent alterations to the ship, in this case
newly-installed life rafts and floater nets. Note OS2U
"Kingfisher" floatplanes atop the ship's catapults.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98170.
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A U.S. Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher on board the light cruiser USS
Mobile (CL 63) en route to Marcus Island in August 1943. Mobile
was assigned to Take Force 15, centered around the aircraft
carriers USS
Essex (CV 9), USS
Yorktown (CV 10), and USS
Independence (CVL 22), which attacked Marcus Island
on 31 August. Also part of TF 15 were the battleship Indiana,
the cruisers Nashville
and Mobile,
and the destroyers La
Vallette, Stevens,
Ringgold,
Schroeder,
Sigsbee,
Thatcher,
Harrison,
John
Rodgers, McKee,
Dashiell,
Halford
and the oiler Guadalupe.
Note the ships on the horizon, Nashville on the left, Indiana
in the center and Essex
or Yorktown
on the right.
U.S. Navy photo #80-G-470528 available from the National
Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier # 520886
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Robert Hurst |
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Underway in the Pacific, October
1943, probably at the time of the raid on Marcus Island.
Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98166.
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Underway in the Pacific, with an SBD
aircraft flying overhead. Taken during combat operations in
October 1943, probably at the time of the raid on Marcus Island.
Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98167.
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USS Mobile (CL 63) View on the ship's fantail, looking
across her open aircraft hangar hatch toward the starboard
quarter, during the October 1943 raid on Marcus Island. Vought
OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplanes are on her catapults. The plane on
the starboard catapult has a small bomb under its wing. USS
Yorktown (CV 10) is in the center distance.
Photographed by Photographer's Mate Alphonso Ianelli.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-K-15825.
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USS Mobile (CL 63) Preparing to launch a Vought OS2U
"Kingfisher" floatplane from her port catapult, during the
October 1943 raid on Marcus Island. Note the 40mm twin gun mount
in the foreground, with a man in the gun tub holding a red flag.
Photographed by Photographer's Mate Alphonso Ianelli.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-K-15826.
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National Archives |
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Ship's scoreboard |
Ron Reeves
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USS Mobile (CL 63) In San Francisco Bay, California,
circa late 1945. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77364.
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