USS Juneau (CL-119)
USS Juneau underway on 1 July 1951
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United States | |
Name | Juneau |
Namesake | City of Juneau, Alaska |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 15 September 1944 |
Launched | 15 July 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. B. L. Bartlett |
Commissioned | 15 February 1946 |
Decommissioned | 23 July 1955 |
Reclassified | CLAA-119, 18 March 1949 |
Stricken | 1 November 1959 |
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Nickname(s) | The Galloping Ghost |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Scrapped, 29 April 1960 |
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Class and type | Juneau-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 6,500 tons (standard); 8,450 tons (loaded) |
Length | 541 ft 0 in (164.9 m) |
Beam | 52 ft 10 in (16.1 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.2 m) |
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Speed | 32.7 knots (61 km/h) |
Range | 6,440 nautical miles (11,930 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × lifeboats |
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The second USS Juneau (CL-119/CLAA-119) was the lead ship of the United States Navy Juneau-class cruisers.
Construction and commissioning
Juneau was
Service history
Mediterranean, 1946-1949
Juneau spent her first year of commissioned service in operations along the
Having been reclassified CLAA-119 on 18 March 1949, Juneau departed Norfolk on 29 November for the Pacific.[3]
Korean War, 1950-1952
She arrived at
The ship departed
Atlantic, 1953-1955
Juneau engaged in training maneuvers and operations until 7 April 1953 when she arrived Norfolk to rejoin the Atlantic Fleet. On 13 May the cruiser departed for duty with the 6th Fleet once again, and returned home on 23 October. She operated in the Atlantic and Caribbean until 18 November 1954, then returned to the Mediterranean for her last tour of duty.[3]
Decommissioning and sale
After her return to the East Coast on 23 February 1955, she was placed in reserve at Philadelphia on 23 March 1955, and remained inactive until decommissioned on 23 July 1955. The ship was then attached to the Philadelphia Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until 1 November 1959, when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. Juneau was sold for scrapping to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation, New York in 1962.[3]
Awards
- World War II Victory Medal
- Navy Occupation Medal
- National Defense Service Medal
- battle stars
- United Nations Korea Medal
Footnotes
Notes
Citations
- ^ Rickard, J (13 January 2015). "Atlanta Class Cruisers". Historyofwar.org. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "US Cruisers List: US Light/Heavy/AntiAircraft Cruisers, Part 2". Hazegray.org. 24 April 2000. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Juneau II (CL-119)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. 24 July 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ ISBN 1-901623-72-6.
- ISBN 0870217186.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Friedman, Norman (1980). "United States of America". In Gardiner, Robert & Chesneau, Roger (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. pp. 86–166. ISBN 978-0-87021-913-9.
- Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-739-5.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Juneau at NavSource Naval History
- Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: USS Juneau, 1945-1951
- Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: USS Juneau, 1951-1952
- Korean War Project
- Crew Members' Page
- Commander T. A. Curtin, “49, CDR USN (Ret.) Diary
- U.S. Military Historical Collection, Veteran's Stories, PO2 Lavern Meemken - US Navy - Gunner's Mate, USS Juneau -CLAA-119- "Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast"