USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)
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USS Salt Lake City (CL/CA-25) of the United States Navy was a Pensacola-class cruiser, later reclassified as a heavy cruiser, sometimes known as "Swayback Maru" or "Old Swayback". She had 11 battle stars for the eleven engagements she participated in. She was also the first ship to be named after Salt Lake City, Utah.
USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), over head underway, 23 August 1935. | |
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United States | |
Name | Salt Lake City |
Namesake | City of Salt Lake City, Utah |
Ordered | 18 December 1924 |
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Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
Cost | $8,673,833 (limit of cost) |
Laid down | 9 June 1927 |
Launched | 23 January 1929 |
Sponsored by | Miss Helen Budge |
Commissioned | 11 December 1929 |
Decommissioned | 29 August 1946 |
Reclassified | CA-25, 1 July 1931 |
Stricken | 18 June 1948 |
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Nickname(s) | "Swayback Maru" |
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Fate | Sunk as target on 25 May 1948, 130 miles off the Southern California coast |
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General characteristics (as built)[1] | |
Class and type | Pensacola-class cruiser |
Displacement | 9,100 long tons (9,246 t) (standard) |
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Beam | 65 ft 3 in (19.89 m) |
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Speed | 32.7 kn (37.6 mph; 60.6 km/h) |
Range | 10,000 nmi (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
Capacity | 1,500 short tons (1,400 t) fuel oil |
Complement | 87 officers 576 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems | CXAM radar from 1940[2] |
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Aircraft carried | 4 × floatplanes |
Aviation facilities | 2 × Amidship catapults |
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She was laid down on 9 June 1927, by the American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, a subsidiary of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation,[4] at Camden, New Jersey; launched on 23 January 1929, sponsored by Helen Budge,[5][6] a granddaughter of leading Mormon missionary William Budge; and commissioned on 11 December 1929, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Captain Frederick Lansing Oliver in command.[7]