USS Milwaukee (CL-5)
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| Shipyard | Todd Dry Dock and Construction Co., Tacoma, Washington | |
| Keel laying | December 13, 1918 | |
| Launch | March 24, 1921 | |
| Commissioning | June 20, 1923 | |
| Whereabouts | Decommissioned March 18, 1949, dismantling December 10, 1949 | |
The USS Milwaukee (CL-5) was an Omaha-class light cruiser and served in the US Navy , and from 1944 to 1949 as the Murmansk of the Soviet Navy .
Dimensions and equipment
The USS Milwaukee (CL-5) was 167.8 m long (overall length), 16.9 m wide, had a draft of 6.1 m and a maximum displacement of 9150 t. The crew was 458 men. Four turbines with a total output of 90,000 hp brought the ship to a top speed of 34 knots. At an average speed of 15 knots, it had a range of 10,000 nautical miles. The USS Milwaukee (CL-5) was armed with twelve 15.2 cm cannons, carried eight 7.6 cm heavy flak and had ten tubes for 53.3 cm torpedoes.
history
The USS Milwaukee (CL-5) was at Todd dry dock & Construction Co. in Seattle laid down on 13 December 1918, had on March 24, 1921 launch and launched on 20 June 1923 in service. It was equipped with a depth measurement system and was used for surveying purposes. On February 14, 1939, it measured the greatest depth of the Atlantic Ocean at 9,219 m in the Puerto Rico Trench . This has since been named after the ship: Milwaukeetief . Its depth is now estimated at around 8,400 m.
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After her overhaul in a shipyard in New York, the USS Milwaukee (CL-5) was used as an escort ship for a troop transport in the Caribbean and the Pacific . She then operated in the South Atlantic, where she brought up the German freighter Annaliese Essenberger and sank it. Her last voyage under the American flag took her to Ireland as an escort ship and from there to Murmansk , Russia , where she was loaned to the Soviet Northern Fleet in 1944 until she was decommissioned on March 18, 1949. It was sold and scrapped on December 10, 1949.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heather Ann Stewart: The five deeps: The location and depth of the deepest place in each of the world's oceans . In: Earth Science Reviews . 197: 102896, October 2019, p. 5.
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