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CLASS -
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 Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co., Seattle WA.
Launched by Todd Dry Dock & Construction Co. Seattle, WA on 24 MAR 1921.
Commissioned 20 JUN 1923
Transferred on loan to Soviet Union on 20 APR 1944.
Transferred back to United States on 16 MAR 1949
Decommissioned 18 MAR 1949
Stricken 18 MAR 1949.
Fate: Sold for scrap 10 DEC 1949 to American Shipbreakers, Inc., Wilmington, DE
MILWAUKEE, Capt. Forest B. Royal, was in New York Navy Yard for overhaul when Japan struck. Departing New York 31 December 1941, MILWAUKEE escorted a convoy to the Caribbean and arrived Balboa 31 January 1942, transited the Panama Canal, and escorted eight troop transports to the Society Islands. Returning to the Atlantic through the canal 7 March 1943, CRUISER
For the next 2 years
On reaching the scene that morning,
Her salvage party jettisoned cargo, to lighten the Brazilian. The fires were brought under control as Commandante Lyra was towed towards
On 21 November 1942 the task force encountered a strange ship which turned out to be the German blockade runner Anneliese Essberger.
Minutes later the first of three tremendous explosions hurled wreckage hundreds of feet in the air and the freighter settled by the stern. Then the Norwegian flag was hauled down and the German merchant swastika flag was raised at the main. The German motorship heeled over to port and sank by the stern.
On the morning of 2 May 1943 while
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