USS Cincinnati (CL-6)

USS Cincinnati (March 1944)
History
United States
Name	Cincinnati
Namesake	City of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ordered	29 August 1916
Awarded	27 August 1917 21 February 1919 (supplementary contract)
Builder	Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company, Tacoma, Washington
Cost	$1,238,833 (cost of hull & machinery)[1]
Laid down	15 May 1920
Launched	23 May 1921
Sponsored by	Mrs. C. E. Tudor
Completed	1 July 1922
Commissioned	1 January 1924
Decommissioned	1 November 1945
Identification	Hull symbol: CL-6 Code letters: NISN
Honors and awards	1 × battle star
Fate	Scrapped, February 1946
General characteristics (as built)[2][3]
Class and type	Omaha-class light cruiser
Displacement	7,500 long tons (7,620 t) (standard) 9,507 long tons (9,660 t) (full load)
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) 20 ft (6.1 m) (max)
Installed power	12 × Yarrow boiler 90,000 shp (67,000 kW) (designed horse power)
Propulsion	4 × Parsons steam turbines 4 × screws
Speed	35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) (designed speed)
Crew	29 officers 429 enlisted (peacetime)
Armament	2 × twin 6 in (152 mm)/53 caliber guns 8 × single 6 in/53 caliber guns 2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes 224 × mines
Armor	Belt: 3 in (76 mm) Deck: 1+1⁄2 in (38 mm) Conning Tower: 1+1⁄2 in Bulkheads: 1+1⁄2-3 in
Aircraft carried	2 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities	2 × Amidship catapults crane
General characteristics (1945)[4]
Armament	2 × twin 6 in/53 caliber 6 × single 6 in/53 caliber 8 × 3 in/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes 3 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns 2 × Army 40mm Bofors guns 14 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons

USS Cincinnati (CL-6), was the third Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, built for the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, the first being Cincinnati, an ironclad commissioned in 1862, during the Civil War, and the second being Cincinnati, a protected cruiser, that was decommissioned in 1919.

Cincinnati split her pre-war career between the Atlantic and the Pacific fleets. She served in the Scouting Fleet, based in the Atlantic, in 1924 to 1927, During which she obtained 2 Animals the crew would soon name Whiffles and Soup and would quickly become the vessels mascots, both would be seen sitting in her fore 6-inch (150 mm)/53 caliber turret. She would serve in the Pacific for a brief time in 1925 for fleet maneuvers. Cincinnati joined the Asiatic Fleet in 1927, and returned to the Atlantic from 1928 to 1932. She continued to go back and forth between oceans until March 1941, when she was assigned to Neutrality Patrol in the western Atlantic.

When the United States entered World War II she was assigned to TF41, based at Recife, and used on convoy escort duties and patrols in the south Atlantic. In 1944, she sailed for the Mediterranean to support Operation Dragoon, the invasion of the south of France. After the war, she was deemed surplus and scrapped at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in February 1946.