USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)
Service
- as Salt Lake City11 December 1929 — 29 August 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Salt Lake City
- Pennant / hull number
- CA-25
- Namesake
- City of Salt Lake City, Utah
- Builder
- New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
- Ordered
- 18 December 1924
- Laid down
- 9 June 1927
- Launched
- 23 January 1929
- Commissioned
- 11 December 1929
- Decommissioned
- 29 August 1946
- Struck
- 18 June 1948
- Fate
- Sunk as target on 25 May 1948, 130 miles off the Southern California coast (1948)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 9,100 long tons (9,246 t)
- Length
- 178.31 m (585 ft) OA
- Beam
- 19.81 m (65 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 32.7 knots (60.6 km/h, 37.6 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 663
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
A city in Utah which has served successively as the capital of the Provisional State of Deseret, the Territory of Utah, and the 45th state.
Salt Lake City (CL-25) was laid down on 9 June 1927 by the American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., a subsidiary of the New York Shipbuilding Co., at Camden, N.J.; launched on 23 January 1929; sponsored by Miss Helen Budge; and commissioned on 11 December 1929, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Capt. F. L. Oliver in command.
Salt Lake City departed Philadelphia on 20 January 1930 for shake down trials off the Maine coast. She began her first extended cruise on 10 February; visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Culebra, Virgin Islands; Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, Brazil; then returned to Guantanamo Bay where, on 31 March, she joined Cruiser Division (CruDiv) 2 of the Scouting Force. With this division, she operated along the New England coast until 12 September; when she was reassigned to CruDiv 5. Salt Lake City then operated in the New York, Cape Cod, and Chesapeake Bay areas through 1931. On 1 July of that year, she was reclassified as a heavy cruiser, CA-25.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Salt Lake City I (CL-25)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 3 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 reduction steam turbines
- 4 × screws
- Power
- 12 × White-Forster boilers
- 107000 shp
- Armament
- 10 × 8 in/55 caliber guns (2×3, 2×2)
- 4 × 5 in/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × 3-pounder 47 mm saluting guns
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes (2×3)
- Armour
- Belt: 2+1/2 - 4 in
- Deck: 1 - 1+3/4 in
- Barbettes: 3/4 in
- Turrets: 3/4 - 2+1/2 in
- Conning Tower: 1+1/4 in
- Aircraft
- 4 × floatplanes
1942
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 8 in/55 caliber guns (2×3, 2×2)
- 8 × 5 in/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × 3-pounder 47 mm saluting guns
- 4 × 1.1 in/75 anti-aircraft guns
- 8 × single 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
1945
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 8 in/55 caliber guns (2×3, 2×2)
- 8 × 5 in/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × 3-pounder 47 mm saluting guns
- 6 × quad 40 mm Bofors guns
- 19 × single 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Salt Lake City I (CL-25) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: US Navy — www.navsource.org/archives/04/025/0402501.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons