Heavy Cruisers: Baltimore Class

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Here is a late view of CANBERRA with her missiles removed, so she was a "heavy cruiser" again........ DFO

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Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser USS Toledo pictured returning to Long Beach from Korea in 1951.

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Boston Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS Canberra pictured c1958.

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Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser USS Helena pictured at Guam on December 6th 1952.

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Lead Ship, Heavy Cruiser USS Baltimore pictured her during reactivation refit at Philadelphia Navy Yard on November 28th 1951.

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Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser USS Los Angeles pictured on March 21st 1951... She was recommissioned on January 27th 1951, Capt. Robert N. McFarlane in command. In response to the American efforts in the Korean War, she sailed for the Far East May 14th and joined naval operations off the eastern coast of Korea on May 31st as flagship for Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke's CRUDIV 5...While some consideration was made to convert Los Angeles into a single-end Talos Missile Cruiser, with flagship facilities (in essence a Heavy Cruiser version of the Oklahoma City) funds were not appropriated for this, (or for a general overhaul to enable her continued fleet service), so she was decommissioned at Long Beach on November 15th 1963 and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego. Stricken on January 1st 1974, and sold on May 16th 1975 to the National Steel Corporation for $1,864,380.21, and scrapped at San Pedro.

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Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser USS St Paul pictured on March 26th 1968.

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Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser USS Chicago pictured during her 5 year guided missile conversion at San Francisco Naval Shipyard in 1959.

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Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser USS Chicago pictured during her 5 year guided missile conversion at San Francisco Naval Shipyard c1960.

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Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser USS Chicago pictured during her 5 year conversion to an Albany Class Guided Missile Cruiser at San Francisco Naval Shipyard on December 4th 1963