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STARTING WORK ON NEW CRUISER
Rear Adm. Louis R. DeSteiguer, who is soon to retire from the Navy, started work officially on the treaty cruiser New Orleans, by riveting the first spike of the keel laying ceremony at Brooklyn navy yard. At left is Ernest Lee Jahncke, assistant secretary of tbs navy.
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Image and text provided by Alaska State Library Historical Collections.
Photo from The Daily Alaska Empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 23 April 1931, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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SPONSORS NEW CRUISER
MISS JAHNCKE & ADAMS
MISS CORA STANTON JAHNCKE a student at Newcomb College, New Orleans, daughter of the Assistant Secretary of Navy and Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke, today was designated by Secretary of Navy Charles Francis Adams, as sponsor of the light cruiser New Orleans, which will be launched at the Brooklyn, N. Y., in November. |
Photo by Interational News Photographic Service.
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 19 July 1932, Image 15, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Ships sponsor, Miss Cora S. Jahncke, daughter of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Ernest L Jahncke. |
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Launching ceremony on 12 April 1933, New York Navy Yard. |
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New Orleans, sliding down the ways on 12 April 1933. |
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USS New Orleans commissioning Ceremony. |
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USS New Orleans commissioning Ceremony. |
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USS New Orleans commissioning Ceremony. |
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GIVEN COMMAND OF NEW CRUISER
CAPTAIN REED, ADMIRAL STIRLING & MR. JAHNCKE
CAPT. A. B. REED is congratulated by Ernest Lee Jahncke, former Assistant Secretary of Navy, after the naval officer received his new command, the New Orleans. Mr. Jahncke represented the mayor of New Orleans at the ceremony when the cruiser was commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, jr., commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, also is shown. |
Photo by International News Photographic Service.
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 17 February 1934, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Newest U. S. Cruiser on first Trip
NEW ORLEANS HEADING FOR THE ATLANTIC FOR SHAKEDOWN.
THE 10,000-ton treaty cruiser New Orleans passing under the Brooklyn Bridge on way to the Atlantic for her shakedown cruise. The cruiser was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard 12 April 1933, by Miss Cora Stanton Jahncke, daughter of the former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and commissioned on 15 February 1934. The New Orleans, which is 588 feet long over all, mounts a battery of nine 8-lnch guns in three triple turrets and eight 5-inch anti-aircraft guns. |
A. P. Photo.
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 04 April 1934, Image 20, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Undated pre-war photo of USS New Orleans (CA 32).
George Winstead collection.
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Robert M. Cieri |
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Undated pre-war photo of USS New Orleans (CA 32)
passing under St. Johns bridge in Portland, Oregon. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Undated pre-war photo of USS New Orleans (CA 32)
passing through Burnside drawbridge in Portland, Oregon. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) in English waters, about June 1934.
Photographed by Wright & Logan, Southsea, England. Donation of Captain
Joseph Finnegan, USN (Retired), 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - Photo #: NH 71787.
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Robert M. Cieri |
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1936 photo of Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor. Among
the ships in the harbor are: Front and center a? Northampton class? CA, most likely the? Chester? (CA 27).
The two New Orleans (CA 32) class cruisers on the far left are the Minneapolis
(CA 36) nearer the camera with New Orleans (CA 32) behind.
Both have the curved-faced turrets, limiting them to the CA-32/34/36
group. Within that group, only New Orleans lacked the glassed-in
navigation bridge (below the pilothouse), and minor superstructure variations
point to the other being Minneapolis rather than Astoria(CA
34).
The battleships from left to right: Colorado
(BB 45), or West
Virginia (BB 48), outboard of Idaho
(BB 42), Nevada
(BB 36), outboard of Mississippi
(BB 41), New
Mexico (BB 40), outboard of Maryland
(BB 46) or California
(BB 44).
On the far right is the Hospital ship Relief
(AH 1) with two unidentified ships ahead and to her port side.
Text courtesy of David Johnston, (USNR), Aryeh Wetherhorn (USNR) &
Richard Jensen. Photo courtesy of Edward Cwalinski.
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Bow view while in Drydock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1936
(caption updated by Art Cappabianca). |
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Starboard Bow view while in Drydock at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, 1936. 1st Div is scrubbing down the Starboard bow section. 2nd Div
crew is doing the port side (caption updated by Art Cappabianca). |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) I.R. Lloyd, artist. Photo NH-664 courtesy of history.navy.mil
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) Builder's model, photographed circa 1936. Photo NH-45123 courtesy of history.navy.mil
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 4 February 1942. Note: catapults, stacks, Detroit (CL-8) and YD-66 in background.
Photo 19-N-27647 via history.navy.mil
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 4 February 1942. Note: bridge, wood decking on forecastle and O-1 level decks. Detroit (CL-8) and YD-66 in background.
NNHC photo 19-N-27648 |
National Archives |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) underway during exercises
in Hawaiian waters, 8 July 1942.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National
Archives #80-G-10115.
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National Archives |
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Damage, Fire and Flooding Diagram for the USS New Orleans (CA 32) during action on 30 November 1942 off Lunga Point.
Source: Preliminary Design Branch, Bureau of Ships Navy Department, War Loss/Damage Report No.38. |
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Forward Magazine Arrangement Diagram for the USS New Orleans (CA 32) during action on 30 November 1942 off Lunga Point.
Source: Preliminary Design Branch, Bureau of Ships Navy Department, War Loss/Damage Report No.38. |
Mike Green |
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Port bow view as she entered Tulagi harbor about 8 hours after being
struck by a torpedo, 1 December 1942.
U.S. Navy photo from the collection of Fred Overman family.
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Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, New South Wales. 29 December 1942. Bow view of the heavy cruiser USS New Orleans alongside the Sutherland wharf. She lost 150 feet of her bow, including Turret #1, from torpedo damage sustained at the Battle of Tassafaronga. The torpedo caused her forward small arms and aircraft bomb magazines to explode.
Naval Historical Collection - Australian War Memorial |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) camouflaged at Tulagi, Solomon
Islands, some days after she was torpedoed during the Battle of Tassafaronga
on 30 November 1942. Note that her stern is riding high, and that her
forward end is low in the water. The torpedo and subsequent explosion
had severed her bow between # 1 and # 2 eight-inch gun turrets.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National
Archives #80-G-216014.
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National Archives |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) at Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney, NSW in February, 1943. A prefabricated temporary bow is being fitted to allow the ship to return to mainland United States for permanent repairs. The New Orleans lost ~150 feet of her bow from a torpedo hit during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942.
Australian War Memorial, Photo No.305929 |
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"Composite photograph showing flat keel bent under at frame 31,
second longitudinal cut at frame 31, third longitudinal cut at frame
34 1/2, wrecked oil tanks A-504-F and A-505-F, and wrecked bulkheads
at frame 36."
National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.
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Tracy White |
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"Showing starboard side forward below second deck, A-415-M side
armor (note lamination), wrecked storeroom A-413-A, wrecked oil tank
A-505-F, ballistic plate cut at frame 43."
National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.
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Tracy White |
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"Showing wrecked oil tank A-506-F, side armor of A-416-M, wrecked
storeroom A-414-A."
National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181.
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Tracy White |
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A replacement bow being built at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. From the
Pictorial History of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
National Archives.
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This photo was taken after the bow was replaced in Bremerton,
Washington, and the Searchlight Platform between the stacks was modified
to install gun mounts, so it dates to after July 1943. Please compare
that photo with the photo 80-G-10115, taken on 8 July 1942. The Searchlight
Tower in changed, the Sky-forward deck and the bridge configuration was
changed, and a 20MM mount was placed on the bow ahead of Turret I. This
gun mount was the general quarters station for Henry Wenk, GM3 who was
lost at sea during the raid on Hollandia. A friendly aircraft took off
from one of the carriers, clipped the very top of the mast, crashed on
the forward end of the bow, and took Henry Wenk with it. He was Lost-at-Sea.
Caption updated by Henry A. Wristen, FTCS(DV) USN Ret. |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) steams through a tight turn in Elliot
Bay, Washington, on 30 July 1943, following battle damage repairs and
overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard.
Official U.S. Navy photograph from the collections of the Naval History
and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 94847.
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Robert Hurst
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) off of the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, following battle damage repairs and overhaul, 5 August 1943. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo #NH 97848
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Mike Green
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Crew photograph from the WWII era, sometime after July 1943. In the second row from the top, second in from the right (white hat and unbuttoned shirt), is the contributors Grandfather, QM1 John Sullivan. Given his rate, this is probably a photogragh of the Navagation Department. |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32), and other units of Cruiser Division Six bombard Saipan on 14-15 June 1944. Beyond is USS St. Louis (CL 49). United States National Archives, Photo #80-G-K-1774
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Mike Green
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USS Salt Lake City (CA 25), USS
Pensacola (CA 24) and USS New Orleans (CA 32) (listed
from left to right) Nested together at Pearl Harbor, 31 October 1943.
Ford Island is at the left, with USS
Oklahoma (BB 37) under salvage at the extreme left, just beyond
Salt Lake City's forward superstructure. Note the radar antennas,
gun directors and eight-inch guns on these three heavy cruisers.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-264236.
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Scott Dyben |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) at the Mare Island Navy
Yard, California, 8 March 1945. The city of Vallejo is in the background.
Note the ship's welded bow structure (forward of her second 8"/55
triple gun turret). This replaced her original riveted-construction bow,
which as lost during the Battle of Tassafaronga at the end of November
1942. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives - Photo #: 19-N-80232.
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View of the ship's midships area, taken at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, California, 8 March 1945. The city of Vallejo is in the background
and the floating crane YD-98 is at left. Note the ship's radar antennas,
gun directors, 5"/25 guns and smokestacks. Circles mark recent alterations
to the ship.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives - Photo #: 19-N-80233.
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View of the ship from amidships to the stern, taken at
the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 8 March 1945. The city of Vallejo
is in the background, with Pacific Gas & Electric Company fuel storage
tanks at right. The ship has had her port aircraft catapult and starboard
crane removed. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Note: men
lined up in the hangar and well deck, probably for a meal; provisions stacked
in crates on the after deck; "Classic Cleaners" delivery van
and human activity on the pier.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives - Photo #: 19-N-80234.
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Bow on view of USS New Orleans (CA 32) off Mare Island on 8
Mar 1945. She was in overhaul at the shipyard from 11 Jan until 21 Mar
1945.
U.S. Navy Photo #1723-45.
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Stern view of USS New Orleans (CA 32) departing Mare Island
on 8 Mar 1945.
U.S. Navy Photo #1728-45.
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Darryl Baker |
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USS New Orleans (CA 32) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard,
California, 8 March 1945, following her last wartime overhaul. The port
catapult has been removed.
Official U.S. Navy photograph from the collections of the Naval History
and Heritage Command. Photo # 19-N-80227
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Robert Hurst |
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Cruisers and other warships laid up in the Philadelphia Yard Reserve Fleet Basin, circa 1947. Outboard ship in left group is USS St. Louis (CL-49). Ships in background include (in no order): USS San Francisco (CA-38), USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37), USS Minneapolis (CA-36), USS New Orleans (CA 32), USS Louisville (CA-28), and USS Portland (CA-33)
Via history.navy.mil All Hands magazine
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Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 92254 |
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Exploration Vessel Nautilus finds Lost Bow of USS New Orleans (CA 32) Eight Decades After It Was Blown Off by a Japanese Torpedo in World War II
Via smithsonianmag.com
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(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves, & Hank Wristen - Photos courtesy
of Bill Gonyo)
