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Salt Lake City

Class	Pensacola class
Type	Heavy cruiser (CA)
Hull	CA-25
Fate	Afloat. Damaged at Cape Esperance and not sunk. Still afloat at the surrender.
Armament (class)	Two triple and two twin 8-inch turrets, and two funnels.

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 Salt Lake City (CA-25) was a Pensacola-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy. She survived the war.

Her Aleutian Islands date is 3 June 1942. On the Komandorski chart for 26 March 1943, her track is drawn as a dashed line.

On 11 October 1942 she was in the Battle of Cape Esperance. She steamed in Scott's column, astern of Boise.

Gunfire damaged her there, and a gun was hit. Salt Lake City was damaged and was not sunk. The hit is not pinned to one ship.

At Iwo Jima she was in the bombardment force. She joined that force on 16 February 1945 and stayed until 12 March, with the battle dated 19 February. The damage at Cape Esperance left her afloat. She was still afloat at the surrender.

The pictures on this page are the originals.