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- Code Number:
- MYNV09P14_19B
- Title:
- USS Los Angeles (CA-135), Baltimore-class cruiser, USN, United States Navy, Ship, vessel, hull, Sikorski HO3S-1 helicopter, warship
- Name: USS Los Angeles
Builder: Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia
Laid down: 28/07/1943
Launched: 20/08/1944
Commissioned: 22/07/1945
Decommissioned: 9/04/1948
Recommissioned: 27/01/1951
Decommissioned: 15/11/1963
Struck: 1/01/1974
Motto: Non Sibi Sed Patriae, ("Not for self, but for country")
Honors and awards: 5 battle stars (Korea)
Fate: Sold for scrap, 16/05/1975
Displacement: 13,600 long tons (13,818 t)
Length: 205.71 meters (674 feet 11 in)
Beam: 21.59 meters (70 feet 10 in)
Draft: 6.25 meters (20 feet 6 in)
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement: 1,142 officers and enlisted
Armament: 9 8"/55 caliber guns (3 3)
12 5"/38 caliber guns (6 2)
48 Bofors 40 mm guns (12 4)
28 single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
aircraft carried: Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk floatplane
The flying bridge and a small portion of the bow section of the USS Los Angeles is on display at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro, California. - Keywords:
- Image by:
- Charles Hemphill
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