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You wanna talk about forgotten ships...

She gets no love... yet her crew suffered so grievously... God bless them...

U.S.S. Savannah, CL-42


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FRISCAN

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You wanna talk about forgotten ships...

 

She gets no love... yet her crew suffered so grievously... God bless them...

 

U.S.S. Savannah, CL-42

 

 

Regards,

FRISCAN

The ship image is of a New Orleans class heavy cruiser. I am betting that it is the Nasty Asty - USS Astoria.

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Rally,

That IS the U.S.S. Savannah, CL-42 on her Commissioning Day. March 10th, 1938.

Regards,

FRISCAN

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Rally,

 

That IS the U.S.S. Savannah, CL-42 on her Commissioning Day. March 10th, 1938.

 

Regards,

FRISCAN

Roger. I think that the perspective combined with the the early superstructure configuration threw me off. I looked at some other images of her from the late 30s.

 

Sorry for my confusion.

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Roger. I think that the perspective combined with the the early superstructure configuration threw me off. I looked at some other images of her from the late 30s.

 

Sorry for my confusion.

No problem Rally!

 

She underwent several refits in her short ten year service. She underwent a refit ate Mare Island in '39. Another refit in Jan. '42, another in Sept. '42. Another in April '43 in New York and she was of course laid up from Dec. '43 - Oct. '44 due to the damage she sustained in Sept. '43.

 

A lot of her refits dealt simply with minor upgrades except the Jan. '42 refit which actually brought her up to wartime standards with armored gussets for her 5" In. gunnery replacement of the .50 Cal. AA guns to single mount 20mm AA guns and the addition of many more 20 mm AA guns. New paint scheme...etc. The flying bridge was cut down to lighten and stream line her. Just a LOT of upgrades.

 

Of course, during her refit after Salerno they REALLY changed her.

 

Regards,

FRISCAN

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