In November 1942 she intercepted the Anneliese Essberger. Reviewed by TimothyDike. Until decommission, she patrolled the waters off Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and the Kuril islands.After the 1924 cruise to the English Channel and Mediterranean, USS Marblehead sailed to Australia in 1925, stopping in the Samoan, Society Islands and Galapagos. Top speed was 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) with an endurance of 9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph). in 1924-1925 she operated from Virginia Capes, doing fleet exercizes off Panama, California, and the Hawaiian Islands. She was back through the Galapagos, and Panama.
They were all scrapped in 1946, except the Murmansk, returned in 1947.After a career without surprise or notable event, in 1937 Omaha became grounded on a reef at Castle Island, Bahamas. These were to be carried on either side of the fore and aft superstructures, with two levels of casemates in each position. They had White-Forster boilers, Parsons turbines and longer range cruising turbines. Originally five guns could fire on the broadside, but this was reduced to four when the waist guns were deleted early in the design process. In early 1942 they received also three quadruple 1.1-inch (28 mm)/75 gun mounts “Chicago Pianos”. She was part of the Task Group 8.6 (TG 8.6) covering the occupation of Amchitka Island, and Kiska, then Attu. She was provisionally repaired at Tjilatjap, and the ship was later decorated with the Navy Cross for her actions. We did send them some Cruisers and destroyers after all. Type: Light cruiser : Displacement: 7050 BRT : Length: 556 feet : Complement: 458 men : Armament: 12 6"/53 guns (2x2, 8x1). She participated in manoeuvers from San Diego from then until 1941 where she was sent to Pearl harbor. She took part in the fall of 1944 to northern Kuril Islands operations and diversions for Leyte operations. The goal was in case of a single torpedo hit, the flooding was kept limited and the ships can survive.Their great speed was a match for submarines anyway. The standard Mark 3″/50 caliber guns (Marks 10, 17, 18, and 20) from 1915 were dual purpose, after initial Mk.2 going back to 1898 being anti-ship only, the low-angle Marks 3, 5, 6, and 19 were being mounted on small ships, auxiliaries and submarines.These guns were true “quick-firing”, using fixed ammunition with powder case and projectile permanently attached.
The Omaha-class cruisers were a class of light cruisers built for the United States Navy. Built-in the early 1920s after World War I, this class of cruisers had improved speed, better forward guns, and torpedo tubes. The shells weighed 13 poundes, with an explosive bursting charge of 0.81 pounds in AA configuration or 1.27 pounds for High Capacity, explosive means. The lightly built hulls leaked, so that sustained high-speed steaming contaminated the oil tanks with sea water.These drawbacks notwithstanding, the US Navy took some pride in the The ships of the class were considered obsolete as the war ended, and were decommissioned and scrapped within seven months of the The Omaha were the first American cruisers after a very long eclipse dating back to 1907 (the Chester).
From August, she served as temporary flagship of the Southeast Pacific Force, and from January 1945, sailed to Ulithi and from there the 5th Fleet. She then patrolled the waters of Panama in 1942 and made convoys escorts to the Galápagos Islands and the Society Islands and then the South American lanes.By 1943 she was sent in the Aleutian waters. Afterwards she operated with the Atlantic fleet from August 1928 to January 1933 and joined the Pacific fleet from February 1933 to January 1938. The war broke up when she was undergoing extensive overhaul from 17 June until October 1939.She then operated in the Caribbean and was based in Lisbon to protect US citizens interests and relieve the ships which had done so after the Spanish civil war. She then escorted convoys of the North Atlantic and sailed for the Mediterranean, based Palermo in July 1944, joining the task force of Operation Dragoon, for the southern France landings shelling enemy installations of Saint Raphael and afterward withdrew to Corsica. These guns were particular as being fitted in the new Mark 13 casemate mounting designed for the Omaha class, the primary battery also intended for the secondary battery of the never-completed Lexington-class battle cruisers and South Dakota-class battleships.Secondary armament comprised two 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns.
On 7, december she was not at Pearl harbor, but in San Diego for an overhaul, completed in February 1942.She then sailed to Bora Bora, Southeast Pacific Force, for escort missions to the Society Islands and then back to the Southern Pacific.