Photos and the story

Honolulu

Class	Brooklyn class
Type	Light cruiser (CL)
Hull	CL-48
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Flagship at Kula Gulf.
Armament (class)	Five triple 6-inch turrets and two funnels.
Command	Smith, Oscar Captain from 15 June 1938

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.

USS Honolulu (CL-48) was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser of the United States Navy. Oscar Smith was her captain from 15 June 1938.

On 7 December 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, a bomb fell as a near miss and damaged Honolulu. She was not sunk. The damage is not pinned to one plane. On 30 November 1942, at the Battle of Tassafaronga, she stood in the cruiser line and was not hit.

On 6 July 1943, at the Battle of Kula Gulf, Honolulu was Rear Admiral Ainsworth's flagship and the flagship of the cruiser line. Helena and St. Louis were in that line with her. Honolulu survived the war. Her record of that service includes her place as flagship at Kula Gulf.

The pictures on this page are the originals.