USS Columbus (CA-74)
USS Columbus in 1948
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| Name: | Columbus |
| Namesake: | Columbus, Ohio |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Ordered: | 9 September 1940 |
| Laid down: | 28 June 1943 |
| Launched: | 30 November 1944 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. E. G. Meyers |
| Commissioned: | 8 June 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 January 1975 |
| Reclassified: | CG-12 on 30 September 1959 |
| Struck: | 9 August 1976 |
| Motto: | Ad Frontes Mundi |
| Nickname(s): | The Tall Lady |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap on 03 OCT 1977 |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Baltimore-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 13,600 tons |
| Length: | 674 ft 11 in (205.71 m) |
| Beam: | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 5 in (8.05 m) |
| Speed: | 32.6 kn (60.4 km/h; 37.5 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,906 officers and enlisted |
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The third USS Columbus (CA-74), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy named for Columbus, Ohio. She was launched on 30 November 1944 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts; she was sponsored by Mrs. E. G. Meyers; and commissioned on 8 June 1945, Captain Allen Hobbs in command.
30 November 1944–8 May 1959
Joining the Pacific Fleet, Columbus reached Tsingtao, China, on 13 January 1946 for occupation duty. On 1 April, she helped to sink 24 Japanese submarines, prizes of war, and next day sailed for San Pedro, California. For the remainder of the year, she operated in west coast waters, then made a second Far Eastern cruise from 15 January to 12 June 1947.
After west coast operations and an overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Columbus cleared Bremerton on 12 April 1948 to join the Atlantic Fleet, arriving at Norfolk, Va., on 19 May. Columbus made two cruises as flagship of Commander-in-Chief, Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, from 13 September 1948 to 15 December 1949 and from 12 June 1950 to 5 October 1951, and one as flagship of Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, during parts of NATO Operation Mainbrace from 25 August to 29 September 1952. She cruised in the Mediterranean from October 1952 through January 1953, serving part of that time as flagship of the 6th Fleet. Now flagship of Cruiser Division 6, she returned to the Mediterranean from September 1954 to January 1955. Between deployments, Columbus received necessary overhauls and carried out training operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean.
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