USS Los Angeles (CA-135)
| USS Los Angeles (CA-135) | |
|---|---|
| Baltimore- class | |
_underway_on_27_April_1959_(NH_97388).jpg) USS Los Angeles (CA-135) in April 1959 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Heavy cruiser |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | July 28, 1943 |
| Launch | August 20, 1944 |
| Namesake | los Angeles |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
1945-1948 |
| Commissioning | July 22, 1945 |
| Decommissioning | April 9, 1948 |
| Whereabouts | Reserve fleet |
| 2. Period of service |
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| period of service | 1951-1963 |
| Commissioning | January 27, 1951 |
| Decommissioning | November 15, 1963 |
| Awards | 5 Battle Stars (Korea) |
| Removed from ship register | 1st January 1974 |
| Whereabouts | Wrecked in 1975 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
17,031 ts |
| length |
205.3 meters |
| width |
21.6 meters |
| Draft |
7.3 meters |
| crew |
1142 |
| drive |
4 steam turbines |
The USS Los Angeles (CA-135) was a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy and was one of Baltimore class at. It was named after the city of Los Angeles .
history
The Los Angeles was laid down at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1943 and launched around 13 months later. The official commissioning took place on July 22, 1945.
After the first test drives off Cuba, the first voyage led to the Western Pacific in October 1945, and in early 1946 the Los Angeles moored in Shanghai . On April 9, 1948, the cruiser, which was laid down in Kiel during the Second World War, was decommissioned and assigned to the reserve fleet .
Four years later, on January 27, 1951, the Los Angeles was reactivated in the wake of the beginning of the Korean War . In May of that year the cruiser reached the coast of Korea and served as the flagship of Commander CRUDIV 5 (Commander of Cruiser Division 5), Admiral Arleigh Burke . At the end of the year a shipyard overhaul followed, again in October 1952 a second trip to Korea, during which the ship was slightly damaged by enemy coastal batteries .
After the war, the Los Angeles was relocated eight more times to the western Pacific, mostly as a flagship. In the late 1950s the ship also received three cruise missiles of the type SSM-N-8A Regulus , which could be fired from the back deck. On November 15, 1963, the ship was decommissioned a second time and went into the reserve fleet. In 1974 it was removed from the Naval Vessel Register . On May 16, 1975 the Los Angeles was sold to the National Steel Corporation for US $ 1,036,089 and scrapped in the port of San Pedro .
Trivia
Los Angeles saves the main characters from the Rastapopoulos submarine in the album Charcoal on board the comic series Tintin by the seaplanes bombing the submarine.
Web links
- History of the USS Los Angeles (CA-135) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- Youtube: Tim und Struppi (15): Coal on Board - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu6AZTNOQao&list=PLcHQT4HggOBuFfUwE0MT3UE7nuujC1BnC&index=16&t=0s
- Michael Farr: In the footsteps of Tim & Struppi . Carlsen, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-551-77110-0