USS Cincinnati (CL-6)
Service
- as Cincinnati1 January 1924 — 1 November 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Cincinnati
- Pennant / hull number
- CL-6
- Namesake
- City of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Builder
- Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company, Tacoma, Washington
- Ordered
- 29 August 1916
- Laid down
- 15 May 1920
- Launched
- 23 May 1921
- Commissioned
- 1 January 1924
- Decommissioned
- 1 November 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped, February 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 7,500 long tons (7,620 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,507 long tons (9,660 t)
- Length
- 169.16 m (555 ft) OA
- Beam
- 16.76 m (55 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
The third Cincinnati was launched 23 May 1921 by Seattle Construction Drydock Co., Seattle, Wash.; sponsored by Mrs. C. E. Tudor; completed by Todd Dry Dock and Construction Co., Tacoma, Wash.; and commissioned 1 January 1924, Captain C. P. Nelson in command.
After a shakedown cruise off South America, Cincinnati joined the Scouting Fleet in June 1924, for operations along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean. With this force, she joined in fleet maneuvers in the Pacific and off the Panama Canal Zone in spring 1925, then resumed Atlantic and Caribbean operations until early in 1927.
On 17 February 1927, Cincinnati sailed from Balboa, C.Z., for duty in the Far East, based at Shanghai until October, then at Manila, and again at Shanghai from February 1928 to April. On the long cruise home to the east coast, she joined in exercises off Oahu and, carried men from Honolulu to Corinto, Nicaragua, returning to Newport, R.I., 25 July 1928, for operations on the east coast until 1932.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Cincinnati III (CL-6)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 × Parsons steam turbines
- 4 × screws
- Power
- 12 × Yarrow boiler
- 90000 shp (designed horse power)
- Armament
- 2 × twin 6 in/53 caliber guns
- 8 × single 6 in/53 caliber guns
- 2 × 3 in/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
- 224 × mines
- Armour
- Belt: 3 in
- Deck: 1+1/2 in
- Conning Tower: 1 in
- Bulkheads: 1-3 in
- Aircraft
- 2 × floatplanes
1945
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- 2 × twin 6 in/53 caliber
- 6 × single 6 in/53 caliber
- 8 × 3 in/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 3 × twin 40 mm Bofors guns
- 2 × Army 40mm Bofors guns
- 14 × single 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Cincinnati (CL-6) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Cincinnati III (CL-6) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo 19-N-62458 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons