USS Saint Paul (CA-73)
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USS Saint Paul (CA-73)
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| Name: | USS Saint Paul |
| Namesake: | St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel Company at Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 3 February 1943 |
| Launched: | 16 September 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 17 February 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 April 1971 |
| Struck: | 31 July 1978 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped in 1980 |
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| Class and type: | Baltimore-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 14,500 tons |
| Length: | 673 ft 5 in (205.26 m) |
| Beam: | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 5 in (8.05 m) |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1700 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | |
| Aircraft carried: | 4 |
USS Saint Paul (CA-73), a Baltimore-class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for St. Paul, Minnesota.
Her keel was laid down as Rochester on 3 February 1943 by the Bethlehem Steel Company in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 16 September 1944 sponsored by Mrs. John J. McDonough, and commissioned on 17 February 1945, Captain Ernest H. von Heimburg in command. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 July 1978, and was sold for scrapping in January 1980.
After shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, Saint Paul departed Boston, Massachusetts, on 15 May 1945 and headed for the Pacific. From 8–30 June, she underwent training out of Pearl Harbor and sailed on 2 July to join Task Force 38 (TF 38). This fast carrier striking force completed replenishment at sea on 23 July and then proceeded to launching points for strikes against Honshū, Japan's largest island. From 24 July to 10 August, Saint Paul screened the carriers as they delivered heavy air strikes on Kure, Kobe, and the Tokyo area in southern Honshū, then at Maizuru and various airfields in northern Honshū. During this period, Saint Paul also bombarded industrial targets: first on textile mills at Hamamatsu during the night of 29 July, and then on 9 August at iron and steel works in Kamaishi, firing the war's last hostile salvo from a major ship. Typhoon warnings canceled air operations from 11–14 August. Then, those launched that morning were recalled, after peace negotiations gave promise of Japan's surrender. On 15 August, all offensive operations against Japan were stopped.
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