USS Detroit (CL-8)

USS Detroit (CL-8), off Port Angeles, Washington, 14 April 1944. Her camouflage is Design 3d in the Measure 31-32-33 series.
History
United States
Name:	Detroit
Namesake:	City of Detroit, Michigan
Ordered:	4 March 1917
Awarded:	21 August 1917 12 June 1919 (supplementary contract)
Builder:	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down:	10 November 1920
Launched:	29 June 1922
Sponsored by:	Miss M. Couzens
Completed:	1 November 1921
Commissioned:	31 July 1923
Decommissioned:	11 January 1946
Struck:	21 January 1946
Identification:	Hull symbol:CL-8 Code letters:NISP
Fate:	Sold for scrap 27 February 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Omaha-class light cruiser
Displacement:	7,050 long tons (7,163 t) (standard) 9,508 long tons (9,661 t) (loaded)
Length:	555 ft 6 in (169.32 m) oa 550 ft (170 m) pp
Beam:	55 ft (17 m)
Draft:	14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) (mean)
Installed power:	12 × Yarrow boiler 90,000 ihp (67,000 kW) (Estimated power produced on trials)
Propulsion:	4 × Curtis steam turbines 4 × screws
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) 33.7 knots (62.4 km/h; 38.8 mph) (Estimated speed on Trial)
Crew:	29 officers 429 enlisted (peace time)
Armament:	2 × twin 6 in (150 mm)/53 caliber guns 8 × single 6 in (150 mm)/53 caliber guns 4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns anti-aircraft 6 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 4 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 224 × mines (removed soon after completion)
Armor:	Belt: 3 in (7.6 cm) Deck: 1 1⁄2–4 in (38–102 mm) Conning Tower: 1 1⁄2 in (38 mm) Bulkheads: 1 1⁄2–3 in (38–76 mm)
Aircraft carried:	2 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities:	2 × Amidship catapults crane
General characteristics (1945)
Armament:	2 × twin 6 in (152 mm)/53 caliber 4 × single 6 in (152 mm)/53 caliber 8 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns 6 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 5 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns 12 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons

USS Detroit (CL-8) was an Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, of the United States Navy. She was the fourth Navy ship named for the city of Detroit, Michigan. She spent her first eight years as part of the Scouting Fleet either in the Atlantic or Mediterranean. Her first duty was to assist in the USAAS's first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924 and transported the United States Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, in 1927, from Ireland to France for the negotiations that led to the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. In 1931 she joined the Battle Force, where her home port was San Diego until moving to Pearl Harbor in 1941. Detroit was moored next to her sister Raleigh when the Japanese attacked on the morning of 7 December 1941.

Detroit ordered 4 March 1917 with the contract being awarded to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts on 21 August 1917. She was laid down on 10 November 1920 and launched 29 June 1922. Her sponsor was Miss M. Couzens, daughter of James J. Couzens, the Mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Detroit was commissioned on 31 July 1923, with Captain J. Halligan, Jr. in command.