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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Raleigh''''' was one of ten [[Omaha Class Cruiser (1920)|Omaha class]] light cruisers completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Raleigh''''' was one of ten [[Omaha Class Cruiser (1920)|''Omaha'' class light cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
  
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''Raleigh'' commissioned in the [[Boston Navy Yard]] on 6 February, 1924 under Captain [[William Carleton Watts]].
 
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Revision as of 19:56, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. Raleigh (1922)
Hull Number: CL-7
Builder: Fore River[1]
Laid down: 16 Aug, 1920[2]
Launched: 25 Oct, 1922[3]
Commissioned: 6 Feb, 1924[4]
Decommissioned: 2 Nov, 1945[5]
Stricken: 28 Nov, 1945[6]
Sold: 27 Feb, 1946[7]

U.S.S. Raleigh was one of ten Omaha class light cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Raleigh commissioned in the Boston Navy Yard on 6 February, 1924 under Captain William Carleton Watts.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 451.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 451.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 451.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 451.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 451.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 451.
  7. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 451.

Bibliography


Omaha Class Light Cruiser
Omaha Milwaukee Cincinnati Raleigh Detroit
Richmond Concord Trenton Marblehead Memphis
<– Chester Class Minor Cruisers (US)