Heavy Cruiser Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa

Country	United States
Ship Class	New Orleans-class Heavy Cruiser
Builder	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, United States
Laid Down	3 Sep 1931
Launched	15 Nov 1933
Commissioned	17 Aug 1934
Decommissioned	13 Feb 1946
Displacement	9,950 tons standard
Length	588 feet
Beam	62 feet
Draft	19 feet
Speed	32 knots
Crew	708
Armament	9x8in, 8x5in, 8x12.7mm

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Photographs

Tuscaloosa steaming at high speed, probably during trials in 1934

Tuscaloosa hoisting a SOC Seagull floatplane from the sea, while en route to Iceland, Sep 1941; note another SOC aircraft on starboard catapult

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Tuscaloosa Operational Timeline

17 Aug 1934	Tuscaloosa was commissioned into service.
29 May 1941	Task Group 3, comprised of aircraft carrier USS Ranger, heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa, and destroyers USS McDougal and Eberle, sailed from Bermuda on a 4,355-mile Neutrality Patrol in the Atlantic.
8 Jun 1941	USS Ranger, USS Tuscaloosa, and their task group returned to Bermuda and conclude their ten-day Neutrality Patrol.
26 Mar 1942	US Navy warships Washington, Wasp, Wichita, Tuscaloosa, and eight destroyers sailed from Portland, Maine, United States for Britain to reinforce the Royal Navy Home Fleet.
2 Jan 1945	USS Missouri and USS Tuscaloosa with USS Bailey, Bancroft and Wadsworth as escorts departed US Territory of Hawaii for Ulithi, Caroline Islands.
13 Jan 1945	USS Missouri and USS Tuscaloosa with USS Bailey, Bancroft and Wadsworth as escorts arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands.
13 Feb 1946	Tuscaloosa was decommissioned from service.

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1. Steven K. Hilton says:
6 Mar 2023 07:31:12 PM

Eugene Harold Hilton CWO ll, USS Tuscaloosa crew list 1946

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