USS Toledo (CA-133)
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 United States
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| Name: | Toledo |
| Namesake: | Toledo, Ohio |
| Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | 13 September 1943 |
| Launched: | 6 May 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 27 October 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 May 1960 |
| Struck: | 1 January 1974 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol:CA-133 |
| Honors and awards: |
5 battle stars (Korean War) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to National Metal & Scrap Corp. on 30 OCT 1974 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Baltimore-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 13,600 long tons (13,818 t) |
| Length: | 674 ft 11 in (205.71 m) |
| Beam: | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
| Draft: | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
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USS Toledo (CA-133) was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy active during the Korean War.
Toledo was laid down on 13 September 1943 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 6 May 1945, sponsored by Mrs Edward J. Moan, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 27 October 1946, Captain August J. Detzer, Jr., in command.
On 6 January 1947, the heavy cruiser got underway for a two-month training cruise in the waters of the West Indies. After completing shakedown training out of Guantanamo Bay, she visited St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands; Kingston, Jamaica; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before returning north to Philadelphia and a three-week post-shakedown availability. On 14 April, she departed Philadelphia and shaped a course across the Atlantic. Toledo steamed through the Mediterranean, transited the Suez Canal, crossed the Indian Ocean, and arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, on 15 June. Toledo remained in the Far East visiting Japanese and Korean ports in support of occupation forces until October. On the 21st, she stood out of Yokosuka for her first transpacific voyage and steamed via Pearl Harbor to Long Beach, California, where she arrived on 5 November.
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