USN · CA
Indianapolis
Photos and infoPortland-class heavy cruiser. She left San Francisco on 16 July 1945 with components of the Hiroshima bomb, Little Boy, and unloaded them at Tinian on 26 July. She was not carrying the finished bomb. After a stop at Guam she sailed for Leyte alone. Just after midnight on 30 July, I-58 hit her with two torpedoes. She sank in about twelve minutes. Of 1,199 men, 316 were rescued.
| Class | Portland class |
|---|---|
| Type | Heavy cruiser (CA) |
| Hull | CA-35 |
| Fate | Sunk. by I-58 on 30 July 1945, four days after she delivered components of the Little Boy bomb to Tinian. Not Minneapolis. |
| Armament (class) | Three triple 8-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.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) at anchor in 1944.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Command
Marshall Islands
1944-01-31 · bombarded Kwajalein Atoll from 31 January; her guns were also in the Parry bombardment
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 · Spruance's flagship. Not sunk.
Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 · joined the gunfire ships on 19 February
Okinawa
1945-04-01 · a bomb exploded under her on 31 March; she left for Mare Island; not sunk
Sinking of Indianapolis
1945-07-30 · sunk by I-58
