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65k |
Undated photo. |
USN |
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Undated, Excellent overhead showing deck layout and details. |
USN |
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30k |
Undated, seen here in the "broadside perspective" The single
stack sets this class apart from the Baltimore's with just a glance. |
USN |
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30k |
Undated. |
John San Marco |
0412417 |
73k |
Port side view, date and location unknown.
U.S. Navy location.
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David Buell |
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85k |
December 19, 1946 image showing the ship as completed. She
was commissioned the next day. |
USN |
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97k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) Photographed in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts,
19 December 1946, the day before her commissioning ceremonies.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 96882.
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USNHC |
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101k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) Photograph dated 27 June 1950. However,
radar antenna on foremast is of a type that was replaced prior to the
ship's 1950 Western Pacific deployment, indicating that this view was
taken during the later 1940s.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 96883.
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USNHC |
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USS
Valley Forge (CV-45) (left) and USS
Philippine Sea (CV-47) (center) at their anchorages at Sasebo,
Japan, during Korean War resupply activities, 23 August 1950. The ship
in the right distance is USS Rochester (CA-124).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives # 80-G-418734.
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National Archives |
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99k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) Photographed in 1951-53, prior to her
May-September 1953 overhaul.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 96885.
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USNHC |
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31k |
February of 1952 at the naval base in Yokosuka, Japan. |
RM3 Don Garner |
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106k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) En route to the Shimonoseki Strait, Japan,
after operations off the east coast of Korea. Probably taken during
her December 1952 -- March 1953 Korean War combat tour.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 96884.
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USNHC |
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99k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) Departing the Mare Island Naval Shipyard,
California, 20 September 1953, following overhaul. She has been fitted
with 3"/50 twin automatic gun mounts, replacing the 40mm guns she carried
from 1946 to 1953. Tugs USS Dekaury (YTB-178) --at left-- and
USS Awatobi (YTB-264) -- alongside her starboard side, forward--
are assisting her.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 84584.
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USNHC |
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130k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) En route to Saigon, Vietnam, 17 February
1954.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 74136.
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USNHC |
0412415 |
71k |
Bow on view of USS Rochester (CL-124) arriving at Mare Island
with the assistance of the tug USS
Ossahinta (YTB-278) in September 1954 to assist in celebrating
Mare Island's Centennial on 17-19 September 1954.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo #23881-12-54
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Darryl Baker |
0412416 |
86k |
Port bow view of USS Rochester (CL-124) arriving at Mare Island
with the assistance of the tug USS
Ossahinta (YTB-278) in September 1954 to assist in celebrating
Mare Island's Centennial on 17-19 September 1954.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo #23886-12-54
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Darryl Baker |
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165k |
August 1956, moving into refueling station alongside the
Fleet Oiler USS
Kawishiwi (AO-146). |
Dale C. Haskin |
0412413 |
1683k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) Underway in San Francisco Bay, California,
at the time of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' review of the First
Fleet, 13 June 1957.
Photo taken by Allied Photographers of San Francisco.
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Robert M. Cieri |
0412418 |
60k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, approaching USS
Virgo (AKA-20) for replenishment, 1957.
From the collection of LTjg. Bernard Schenck, USS Virgo 1957.
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Marc Schenck |
0412419 |
56k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, approaching USS
Virgo (AKA-20) for replenishment, 1957.
From the collection of LTjg. Bernard Schenck, USS Virgo 1957.
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Marc Schenck |
0412420 |
39k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, alongside USS
Virgo (AKA-20) with helos available for rescue, 1957.
From the collection of LTjg. Bernard Schenck, USS Virgo 1957.
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Marc Schenck |
0412421 |
77k |
USS Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, hi-line transfer with
USS Virgo
(AKA-20), 1957.
From the collection of LTjg. Bernard Schenck, USS Virgo 1957.
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Marc Schenck |
