USS Canberra (CA 70)

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Canberra (CA-70, ex-CAG-2, ex-CA-70) was a Baltimore class cruiser and later a Boston class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. She served from 1943 until 1970, and participated in World War II and the Cuban Missile Crisis naval blockade. Canberra was named after the Royal Australian Navy's County class cruiser, HMAS Canberra, which was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. Canberra was laid down as a Baltimore class heavy cruiser by the Bethlehem Steel Company Fore River Shipyard at Quincy in Massachusetts on 3 September 1941, launched on 19 April 1943 by Lady Alice C. Dixon and commissioned on 14 October 1943, CAPT Alex Rieman Early, USN commanding. Initially the cruiser was to be named Pittsburgh, but the name Canberra was chosen instead in honor of the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra which was severely damaged by gunfire and torpedoes from Japanese warships and subsequently scuttled by USN warships at the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942. The Australian Government returned this tribute by naming a new Tribal class destroyer, HMAS Bataan, in honour of the Battle of Bataan.

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