Category Archives: US Cruisers

Heavy cruisers USS Helena (CA-75) and USS Toledo (CA-133) at Balboa, Canal Zone, 1 July 1949

USS Canberra (CAG 2) underway at sea on 9 January 1961

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USS Saint Paul (CA-73)

USS St Paul, a Baltimore-class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her keel was laid down as Rochester on 3 February 1943 by the Bethlehem Steel Company in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 16 September 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Marie Gordon McDonough[1], wifeContinue reading “USS Saint Paul (CA-73)”

USS Boston ((CA-69/CAG-1) 1962

USS Boston (CA-69/CAG-1), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts. Boston was launched 26 August 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Company’s, Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. Helen Noonan Tobin, wife of the Mayor of Boston, MauriceContinue reading “USS Boston ((CA-69/CAG-1) 1962”