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USS CINCINNATI (CL 6)


     
Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - India - Sierra - November

CLASS - OMAHA
Displacement 7,050 Tons, Dimensions, 555' 6" (oa) x 55' 4" x 20' (Max)
Armament 12 x 6"/53, 2 x 3"/50AA, 10 x 21" tt.
Armor, 3" Belt, 1 1/2" Deck, 1 1/2 Conning Tower.
Machinery, 90,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Crew 458.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 13 DEC 1918 at at Todd Dry Dock & Construction Co. Tacoma, WA
Launched on 23 MAY 1921
Commissioned 01 JAN 1924
Decommissioned 01 NOV 1945
Fate: Sold for scrap 27 FEB 1946.

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal - Yangtze Service Medal - American Defense Service Medal w/FLEET Clasp
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal


                     
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Cincinnati
0400609
276k Mrs. Charles Edgar Tudor, (Lillie Fogg) wife of the Director of Public Safety of Cincinnati Ohio, christened the USS Cincinnati (CL 6) with champagne and Ohio River water. Image and text provided by Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors, 1913-23, pg. 32.
Cincinnati
0400633
NR Scout Cruiser USS Cincinnati (CL 6), another craft to join Uncle Sam's sea fighters, launched at the Tacoma, Wash., shipyards. The ship was christened with a mixture of Ohio river water and champagne. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 19 June 1921, Image 64, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
0400606
NR NEW CRUISER OFF FOR SPEED TRIALS
The Cincinnati (CL 6) leaving the Brooklyn Navv Yard for speed trials over the course at Rockland, Maine. The Williamsburg bridge is in the background.
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 11 November 1924, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati 93k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) View looking up at the cruiser's mainmast in November 1923, just before she left the New York Navy Yard for speed trials off Rockland, Maine. View was taken from between the after smokestack and the mainmast. Note the extensive use of Insulators on the mast rigging. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 69225.

USNHC
Cincinnati
0400638
NR SHE’S AMERICA’S SPEED QUEEN!
This is the fastest of all ships flying the Stars and Stripes. She’s the scout cruiser Cincinnati (CL 6). She’ll soon leave Pacific waters for a record run to New York, around Cape Horn.
Image and text provided by State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Photo from The Bismarck Tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 19 March 1924, Image 1 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
0400618
66k Port bow view, date and location unknown. David Buell
Cincinnati
0400635
NR Unusual Members of Cruiser Cincinnati's Crew.
The feline mascot of the United States scout cruiser USS Cincinnati (CL 6), Whiffles, enjoyed position when put in gun muzzle, but poor old Soup, also mascot, didn't care for it one single bit. He leads dog's life, anyhow. This picture was taken in Brooklyn, N. Y., navy yard, where the Cincinnati was built.
Image and text provided by Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT.
Photo from New Britain Herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 18 September 1924, Image 12 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
0400637
NR In Charge on Trial Run
When the United States cruiser Cincinnati (CL 6), now in New York waters, goes on its trial trip the executive officer of the new cruiser will be (left to right) Commander E. D. McWhorter and Capt. Charles E. Courtney.
Image and text provided by Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT.
Photo from New Britain Herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 04 October 1924, Image 12 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati 80k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) In harbor, circa the mid-1920s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 63244.

USNHC
Cincinnati
0400602
1.31k USS Cincinnati (CL 6) in Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal 12 January 1927.NARA photo catalog.archives.gov
Cincinnati 68k

Vought O2U-1 "Corsair" floatplane (Bureau # A-7918) Suspended over a ship's catapult during the later 1920s. This plane, from Scouting Squadron SIX, is assigned to USS Cincinnati (CL 6). Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 100515.

USNHC
Cincinnati
0400614a
NR JUST AS THE CATAPAULT SPRINGS FOR THE TAKEOFF
...moments of being catapulted from the light cruiser USS Cincinnati (CL 6).
The picture was made during recent maneuvers in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China.
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 27 December 1927, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
0400629
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O2U-1 "Corsair" Scout plane being launched from the USS Cincinnati (CL 6)

Darryl Baker
Cincinnati
        0400639
NR U. S. CRUISERS START ON NAVY’S ‘QUEEREST’ MISSION.
Characterized as the “queerest” mission undertaken by the U. S. navy in many years, light cruiser division three, comprising the cruisers Richmond (CL 9), Marblehead (CL 12) and Cincinnati (CL 6), above, has gone to Nicaragua with a picked crew of 270 men and 40 officers, all able to speak Spanish fluently. They are to scatter through Nicaragua with orders to mingle with the people and convince them of the friendliness of the United States. Left to right, above. Commander Tulley Shelley, leader of the friendship battalion; Captain Hugo W. Osterhaus, commander of the flagship Richmond, and Lieutenant Harrison, flag secretary.
Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX.
Photo from Brownsville Herald.  [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 15 July  1928, SOCIETY, Image 14, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
0400634
NR These gobs don't need hands for pie consumption. The pie-eating contest, pictured above, on the cruiser USS Cincinnati (CL 6), was one of the big celebrations of the fleet’s return to New York from Winter maneuvers. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 19 May 1929, Image 105, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
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289k

Officers of the USS Cincinnati (CL 6) on the bow of the ship in March 1930.

Darryl Baker
Cincinnati
0400630
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Members of the Cincinnati's Aviation Department in March 1930.

Darryl Baker
Cincinnati
0400631
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USS Cincinnati (CL 6) landing force at the rife range at Guantanamo Bay in 1930.

Darryl Baker
Cincinnati
0400620
NR Sailors on an Errand of Mercy
OFF FOR FIRST AID
THE SERIOUS BUSINESS
of “maneuvers” was temporarily halted when a sailor aboard the cruiser Cincinnati (CL 6) was taken ill. A radio summons brought a naval tug 60 miles from Guantanamo. The transfer of the sailor was effected off Cape May.
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 24 February 1931, Image 3 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
0400636
NR The cruiser USS Cincinnati (CL 6) "smokes up" to lay a screen. Looking down from the foremast as a dense smoke screen pours from her stacks to cut off the "enemy’s" view during maneuvers off Panama. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 15 March 1931, Image 114, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Cincinnati
0400621
401k

In the South Boston drydock, December 1931.

From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.

Michael Mohl
Cincinnati
0400619
322k

In the South Boston drydock, December 1931.

From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.

Michael Mohl
Cincinnati
0400622
515k

In the South Boston drydock, December 1931. Note the rudder laying on it's side in the foreground.

From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.

Michael Mohl
Cincinnati
0400623
495k

In the South Boston drydock, December 1931.

From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.

Michael Mohl
Cincinnati 143k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) Visits Portland, Oregon, circa the later 1930s. Photographed by the Angelus Commercial Studio, Portland. Collection of Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 86438.

USNHC
Cincinnati
0400625
806k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) moored at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ca.1937. Detail shot showing visitors on board and catapult mounted observation planes.

City of Vancouver Archives, Photo #AM640-S1-:CVA 260-688, by James Crookall.

Mike Green
Cincinnati
0400626
732k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) moored at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ca. 1937. Detail shot showing visitors on board.

City of Vancouver Archives, Photo #AM640-S1-:CVA 260-686, by James Crookall.

Mike Green
Cincinnati
0400627
520k

Close up photo of the 6”/53 main battery and sailors on board of the USS Cincinnati (CL 6) at Vancouver BC ca. 1937.

City of Vancouver Archives, Photo #AM640-S1-:CVA 260-685, by James Crookall.

Mike Green
Cincinnati
0400632
735k

Close up photo of Starboard catapult and SOC-1 scout plane on board of the USS Cincinnati (CL 6) at Vancouver BC ca. 1937.

City of Vancouver Archives, Photo #AM640-S1-:CVA 260-687, by James Crookall.

Mike Green
Cincinnati
0400624
1.6m

This is from the William "Bill" Larkins collection, which he personally shot at the Port of Oakland, summer of 1938 during summer cruise operations for USN-Reserve personnel.

The planes are both Curtiss SOC-1's with BuNo 9954 on the Left and BuNo 9858 on the Right.

The Squadron was VCS-3 Cruiser Scouting Squadron Three, assigned to The Concord (Flag), Omaha, Cincinnati and Milwaukee.

Photo courtesy of the United States Naval Institute.

Jim Geldert, USNI
Cincinnati 132k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) view on deck, looking aft from the ship's bow, showing her forward 6"/53 gun turret and superstructure. Photographed at the New York Navy Yard, 4 July 1942. Recent alterations are marked and identified. Note Mark XXXII Mod. 1 Rangefinder on the bridge wings.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

National Archives/Scott Dyben
Cincinnati
0400604
3.81k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) underway off New York City, 8 July 1942.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

National Archives/Scott Dyben
Cincinnati
0400610
1.52k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) underway off New York City, 8 July 1942.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-31170.

National Archives/Scott Dyben
Cincinnati 124k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) In New York Harbor, 22 March 1944.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-62459.

National Archives
Cincinnati 54k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) Off New York City, 22 March 1944.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

USNHC
Cincinnati 137k

USS Cincinnati (CL 6) In New York Harbor, 22 March 1944.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-64188.

USNHC
Marblehead
0401220
145k Ex-Marblehead (CL 12) being scrapped in Dry Dock No. 4 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on January 10, 1946. To the left is ex-Cincinnati (CL 6), behind left is ex-Raleigh (CL 7) and behind right is ex-Omaha (CL 4).

Library of Congress, HAER PA,51-PHILA,709D—20

Mike Green
Marblehead
0401221
166k Scrapping of ex-Marblehead (CL 12), ex-Cincinnati (CL 6), ex-Omaha (CL 4), and ex-Raleigh (CL 7). Naval Shipyard Philadelphia. February 18, 1946. Mike Green

Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Final Rank Dates
Nelson, Charles Preston, CAPT RADM 01/01/1924 - 09/20/1924
Courtney, Charles Edward, CAPT RADM 09/20/1924 - 08/01/1926
Johnson, Thomas Lee, CAPT   08/01/1926 - 07/31/1928
Rowcliff, Gilbert Jonathan, CAPT RADM 07/31/1928 - 08/02/1930
Poteet, Fred Halstead, CAPT   08/02/1930 - 12/10/1932
Wadsworth Jr., Alexander Scammel, CAPT
  12/10/1932 - 08/08/1934
Caldwell, Turner Foster, CAPT RADM 08/08/1934 - 01/23/1936
Baughman, Cortlandt Chesterfield, CAPT   01/23/1936 - 09/01/1936
Dessez, John Harrison Semmes, CAPT   09/01/1936 - 07/07/1937
Logan, James Alexander, CAPT COMO 07/07/1937 - 06/10/1939
Lewis, Spencer Steen, CAPT VADM 06/10/1939 - 07/1941
Graf, Homer William, CAPT   07/1941 -
Senn, Elloitt Marchant, CAPT   05/22/1942
Worth Jr., Daniel Fisher, CAPT   10/21/1943
Surran, Charles Lafayette, CAPT   12/11/1944 - 11/01/1945

(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)


USS CINCINNATI (CL 6) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Mr. George Christmas
Address: 4510 Nantucket Dr, Apt 7 Youngstown, OH, 44515-4440
Phone: None listed
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.


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