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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-31744

USS Cleveland (CL-55)


Under construction, at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, 1 October 1941. She was launched one month later.
This view looks forward from amidships, and shows the armored barbettes for her forward six-inch gun turrets.

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

Online Image: 183KB; 590 x 765 pixels

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9 September 2002