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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Richmond''''' 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. ''Richmond''''' was one of ten [[Omaha Class Cruiser (1920)|''Omaha'' class light cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
  
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''Richmond'' commissioned on 2 July, 1923 under Captain [[David French Boyd|David F. Boyd]].
 
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Revision as of 19:58, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. Richmond (1921)
Hull Number: CL-9
Builder: William Cramp & Sons[1]
Laid down: 16 Feb, 1920[2]
Launched: 29 Sep, 1921[3]
Commissioned: 2 Jul, 1923[4]
Decommissioned: 21 Dec, 1945[5]
Stricken: 21 Jan, 1946[6]
Sold: 18 Dec, 1946[7]

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

Richmond commissioned on 2 July, 1923 under Captain David F. Boyd.

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)