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USS Canberra

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The USS Canberra Underway
Public domain photo from the Naval Historical Center

USS Canberra (CA-70), originally named Pittsburgh but renamed for the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra which was severely damaged by gunfire and torpedoes from Japanese warships and subsequently sunk by USN warships at Guadalcanal on 9 August 1942, was a Baltimore class heavy cruiser laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Company Fore River Shipyard at Quincy in Massachusetts on 3 September 1941, launched on 19 April 1943 by Lady Alice C. Dixon and commissioned on 14 October 1943. Canberra operated with the Fast Carrier Task Force during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944 and was severely damaged during the Battle off Formosa on 13 October 1944.

The Canberra was decommissioned on 7 March 1947 and berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton in Washington. In 1952 she was towed to the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey for conversion to a guided missile armed heavy cruiser. She was recommissioned on 15 June 1956 and home ported at Norfolk in Virginia. USS Canberra was decommissioned on 16 February 1970 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 July 1978. She was sold for scrap to National Metal on 31 July 1980 and broken up.

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HMAS Bataan | List of ships of the United States Navy | Tomb of the Unknowns | USS Santa Fe (CL-60)

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