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Keel-laying of the Santa Fe, Ways
"O", New York Shipbuilding Company, within minutes of the
launching of the USS
South Dakota (BB 57) . |
Yu Chu |
 0406021 |
85k |
Christening of the Santa Fe CL 60
by Miss Caroline Chavez. She used Santa Fe water for the
christening. |
Dale Hargrave |
 0406018 |
137k |
Santa Fe slides down the ways on 10 June 1942 at New
York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, NJ |
Tommy Trampp |
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120k |
Late war photo of the ship - no date given. Unusual
bow number style and placement. Poor photo quality! |
USN |
0406023 |
264k |
With her deck crew protecting their ears, an OS2U Kingfisher is
catapulted off the stern of the USS Santa Fe (CL 60),
circa 1942.
US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo
No.2004.166.002.029
|
Mike Green |
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110k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
Pennsylvania, 9 January 1943.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-40686.
|
Fred Weiss |
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70k |
Port side view of USS Santa Fe (CL 60) off
the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on 9 January 1943.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives.
|
National Archives |
 0406014 |
265k |
Starboard side view of USS Santa Fe (CL 60) off the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on 9 January 1943.
U.S. Navy photo #137-43
|
David Buell |
 0406017 |
168k |
Port quarter view, taken 9 January 1943 off the Philadelphia
Navy Yard.
USN Photo.
|
David Buell |
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86k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) View on the foredeck, looking aft
from the bow, with crewmembers cleaning the deck and maintaining
gear, circa early 1943. Note windlass, anchor chain and triple
6"/47 gun turrets.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-342244.
|
Fred Weiss |
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90k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) operating out of the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on 7 March 1943, at about
the time she went to the Pacific.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-41337.
|
National Archives |
 |
103k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) Silhouetted against the Aleutians
sunset, 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-K-8160.
|
Fred Weiss |
 |
188k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) Underway off the U.S. West Coast on
13 January 1944, the day she sailed to take part in the
Marshalls operation.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-439783.
|
Fred Weiss |
 |
154k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) At sea during the Philippines
campaign, 12 December 1944. USS
Washington (BB 56) is alongside an oiler in the
center background. Photographed from USS
Essex (CV 9).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-301357.
|
Fred Weiss |
 |
134k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) Rolling about 35 degrees to
starboard as she rides out a typhoon encountered in the South
China Sea, probably on 18-19 December 1944. Note that her
forward 6"47 gun turret is trained to one side to avoid shipping
water through its gun ports. The photograph was released for
publication on 26 July 1945.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-700024.
|
Fred Weiss |
0406015 |
953k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) coming along side USS
Franklin (CV 13) to assist in fire fighting and rescue
after the Franklin was bombed and severely damaged off the
island of Kyushu on March 19, 1945. |
Pieter Bakels |
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32k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) assisting USS
Franklin (CV 13) in fire fighting and rescue after the
Franklin was bombed and severely damaged off the island of
Kyushu on March 19, 1945. |
USN |
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109k |
USS
Franklin (CV 13) burning off the Japanese coast
after she was hit by air attack, 19 March 1945. Photographed
from USS Santa Fe (CL 60), which was alongside to help
with firefighting and rescue work.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-273888.
|
Tracy White |
0406022 |
67k |
Starboard side view while underway heading for Pearl Harbor, 3
April 1945. She is being overflown by a PBY.
From the Estate of WWII
US Navy Combat Photographer Durward "Buster" DeBrunner.
|
Tommy Trampp |
0406019 |
298k |
Crew members of the Cleveland-class cruiser USS Santa
Fe (CL 60) take a well deserved break after rendering
vital assistance in rescuing crewmen from the sea and closing in
to the burning the aircraft carrier USS
Franklin (CV 13) to take off the numerous wounded
while assisting with fire fighting duties. Thanks to a
"magnificent piece of seamanship" by her captain, the Santa
Fe avoided a torpedo and a suicide plane
simultaneously giving the Santa Fe a chance
stand by the Franklin under extreme
circumstances and was instrumental in saving it from sinking.
The heroic effort of the crews of both ships to save the carrier
was in the finest tradition of the Navy.
Photo courtesy of the USNI
|
Bill Gonyo |
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130k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) off San Pedro, California in July
1945, after an overhaul.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #19-N-87282.
|
Fred Weiss |
0406016 |
48k |
USS Santa Fe (CL 60) anchored in Sasebo,
Japan, September 1945. Photo taken by Lieutenant Junior Grade,
Joseph A. Fernandez, Jr. from the USS
Schmitt (APD 76). |
Peter Fernandez |
0406024 |
200k |
Broadside shot of Santa Fe,
probably late in WW2 or just after judging by antennas and lack of
scout plane on catapult. |
David Wright |
0406020 |
682k |
The ex-Santa Fe (CL 60) on her way
to the scrap yard in November 1959. |
Darryl Baker |
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