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Santa Fe

Class	Cleveland class
Type	Light cruiser (CL)
Hull	CL-60
Builder	New York Shipbuilding, Camden
Launched	1942-06-10
Commissioned	1942-11-24
Fate	Afloat. With Rear Admiral DuBose's cruisers off Cape Engaño on 25 October 1944. They finished Chiyoda by gunfire and sank Hatsuzuki. Not credited to one ship. Santa Fe was not sunk.
Armament (class)	Four triple 6-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.

Santa Fe was a Cleveland-class light cruiser, CL-60. New York Shipbuilding at Camden laid her down on 7 June 1941, launched her on 10 June 1942, and the Navy commissioned her on 24 November 1942. A Cleveland carried twelve 6-inch guns and a heavy antiaircraft battery.

On 25 October 1944 she was one of four cruisers under Rear Admiral Laurance T. DuBose, sent to finish what the carrier aircraft had left of Ozawa's Northern Force. With her were Wichita, New Orleans, and Mobile. They sank Chiyoda with gunfire, after aircraft had stopped her, and they sank Hatsuzuki. Not credited to one ship. Santa Fe was not sunk.

She was decommissioned on 19 October 1946.

The pictures on this page are the originals.