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Size | Image Description | Contributed By |
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| 233k | Undated, location unknown. | Don Smith | |
| 113k | Fully completed with twin 3"/70 caliber main armament and super-firing Weapon As both fore and aft, the Norfolk heads out to sea. Undated. | - | |
| 76k | Undated, location unknown. | Gerd Matthes | |
| 72k | Undated, location unknown. | Gerd Matthes | |
| 109k | USS Norfolk fires deadly ASROC missile at Ket West, Florida during evaluation tests. Navy photo 710735. From the collection of CDR Thomas B. Ray (USS Essex CV-9). | Chris Stanley | |
| 117k | Oblique aerial view off the starboard bow of USS Norfolk (DL-1), location unknown. USN Official from "Jane's Fighting Ships 1959-60." | Robert Hurst | |
| 231k | Just prior to launching on Dec 29, 1951. | - | |
| 120k | Sliding down the ways from ALL HANDS magazine of February 1952. | Stanley Svec | |
| 92k | Newly completed on July 6, 1953 the Norfolk was originally equipped with 3"/50s and twin 20mm guns before receiving the 3"/70s as specified in her design. Her Weapon A anti-submarine mounts are visible but her ASW torpedoes were enclosed in the after superstructure and can't be seen in this photo. | - | |
| 51k | Circa 1954, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
| 31k | Circa 1954, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
| 87k | USS Norfolk (DL-1), underway circa 1957, location unknown. Note unidentified US heavy cruiser in background. Photo U.S. Navy, Official. | Robert Hurst | |
| 173k | 1958 photo showing the Norfolk in her test ship role. Here she is carrying the prototype SPS-26 three dimensional radar, mounted abaft her rear stack. An ASW torpedo tube cover is visible as a dark square on her after superstructure, just to the left of the covered boat amidships. | - | |
| 78k | In Rio in 1963 during UNITAS IV. | Gary L. Smith (RM3) | |
| 57k | Circa 1965, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
| 89k | Fremantle, Australia 1968 | Graeme D. Fuller | |
| 151k | The ship's bell. | Earl Gimlich | |
| 54k | A series of photos showing the Norfolk's guns as they appeared at the Boca Raton (Florida) Community High School in July 2007. | Bill King | |
| 90k | As above. | Bill King | |
| 95k | As above. | Bill King | |
| 43k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 42k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
CAPT Clarence Matheson Bowley Mar 1 1953 - Oct 9 1954 CAPT Carl Arthur Johnson Oct 9 1954 - Mar 1 1956 CAPT John Raymond Leeds Mar 1 1956 - Jul 12 1957 CAPT Leon Samuel Kintberger Jul 12 1957 - Aug 15 1958 (Later RADM) CAPT Joseph William Koenig Aug 15 1958 - Aug 10 1959 CAPT Hugh Quinn Murray Aug 10 1959 - Jun 21 1960 CAPT Richard Rockwell Pratt Jun 21 1960 - Jun 14 1961 (Later RADM) CAPT Robert Ernest Odening Jun 14 1961 - Mar 13 1962 CAPT John Reginald Beardall Jr. Mar 13 1962 - Jun 1963 CAPT David Michael Rubel Jun 1963 - Jul 24 1964 CAPT Parker Broadhurst Armstrong Jul 24 1964 - 1965 (Later VADM) CAPT Vincent Maynard 1965 - 1966 CAPT Frank Clyde Dunham 1966 - 1967 CAPT Robert H. Lemmon 1967 - 1968 CAPT Charles D. Allen Jr. 1968 - 1969
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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