USN · CL
AfloatCleveland-class light cruiser named for the city in Ohio. New York Shipbuilding laid her down at Camden on 8 March 1943, launched her on 19 March 1944, and the Navy commissioned her at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 7 January 1945. She screened the fast carriers off Japan in July and August 1945 and fired on shore installations near Tokyo on 18 July. She was not sunk. Decommissioned at Boston on 1 March 1949 and later sold for scrap.
| Class | Cleveland class |
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| Type | Light cruiser (CL) |
| Hull | CL-105 |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden |
| Launched | 1944-03-19 |
| Commissioned | 1945-01-07 |
| Fate | Afloat. Decommissioned into reserve at Boston on 1 March 1949. Stricken on 1 September 1961 and sold for scrap on 6 April 1962. One battle star for the Third Fleet campaign against Japan, 10 July to 15 August 1945. Not sunk. |
| Armament (class) | Four triple 6-inch turrets and two funnels. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.
The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Dayton (CL-105) underway at sea, in 1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 22. File obtained from the USS Dayton (CL-105) war cruise scrapbook from Cdr. Floyd Loomis, USN (Retired) Public domain.
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