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USS Indianapolis (CA-35), 27 September 1939. | |
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United States | |
Name: | Indianapolis |
Namesake: | City of Indianapolis, Indiana |
Ordered: | 13 February 1929 |
Awarded: | 15 August 1929 |
Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation,Camden, New Jersey |
Cost: | $10,903,200 (contract price) |
Laid down: | 31 March 1930 |
Launched: | 7 November 1931 |
Sponsored by: | Miss Lucy Taggart |
Commissioned: | 15 November 1932 |
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Nickname(s): | "Indy"[1] |
Honors and awards: | 10 × battle stars |
Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk on 30 July 1945 byJapanese submarine I-58. |
General characteristics (as built)[2] | |
Class and type: | Portland-class cruiser |
Displacement: | 9,950 long tons (10,110 t) (standard) |
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Beam: | 66 ft 1 in (20.14 m) |
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Speed: | 32.7 kn (37.6 mph; 60.6 km/h) |
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Aircraft carried: | 4 × floatplanes |
Aviation facilities: | 2 × Amidship catapults |
General characteristics (1945)[3] | |
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Aircraft carried: | 3 × floatplanes |
Aviation facilities: | 1 × Amidship catapults (starboard catapult removed in 1944) |
Progress | 95% complete |
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