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0400428 |
368k | Miss Louise Bushnell White, sponsor, stands on the launching platform to pose for pictures on 14 December 1920 after smashing the customary bottle of champagne on the USS Omaha (CL 4) at Todd Shipyards in Tacoma. Miss White was chosen to represent her home town of Omaha, Nebraska, partially because she was a descendant of David Bushnell, inventor of the Revolutionary War one man submarine. Posing with her on the platform are (order unknown) C.W. Wiley of Seattle, president of Todd Drydocks Inc, William H. Todd of NYC, president of Todd Shipyards Corporation and J.A. Eves, General Manager of Todd Shipyards. The Omaha, the 27th launching at the Todd Yard, is the longest ship built in the Northwest and it is the first to be launched bow first. Tacoma Public Library, Marvin D. Boland Collection, BOLAND-B3345 |
Mike Green | |
0400546 |
NR | NAVY'S NEW FAST SCOUT CRUISERS The above picture shows the completed appearance of our new scout cruisers, the first of which, the Omaha (CL 4) was launched at Tacoma, Washington, in the middle of last month. These ten scout cruisers will be named the Omaha, Milwaukee (CL 5), Cincinnati (CL 6), Raleigh (CL 7), Detroit (CL 8), Richmond (CL 9), Concord (CL 10), Trenton (CL 11), Marblehead (CL 12) & Memphis (CL 13) ...... |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo from The Alliance Herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922, 25 January 1921, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400412 |
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USS Omaha (CL 4) Takes To The Water At Tacoma |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo courtesy of Omaha Daily Bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 30 January 1921, ROTOGRAVURE SECTION, Image 31, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400435 |
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Explosion Damages USS Omaha (CL 4) Crap Game Is Blamed for Wrecking Boiler and Stack of Largest Scout Cruiser in the American Navy Trial Trip Is Started Omaha Is Finest Ship Afloat, Says Captain |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo courtesy of The Omaha Morning Bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 31 January 1923, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400439 |
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Captain of USS Omaha (CL 4) Congratulated Commander Frank Kidgely, who read the instructions of acceptance when the new cruiser, Omaha, was commissioned at Bremerton, Wash., February 33, congratulating Capt. David C. Hanrahan, who took charge of thevship. H. Becker, 518 Park avenue, Omaha, Neb., who witnessed the commissioning ceremonies, writes that "She surely is a beautiful boat. |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo courtesy of The Omaha Morning Bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 03 March 1923, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400405 |
726k |
New Cruiser USS Omaha (CL 4) Making 36 Knots. |
National Archives Identifier: 300885523 Local Identifier: 24-RSB-044 Photo catalog.archives.gov |
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0400401 |
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The Fastest Navy Ship Afloat The US Scout Cruiser USS Omaha (CL 4) |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo courtesy of The Omaha Morning Bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 18 March 1923, ROTOGRAVURE SECTION, Image 35, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400418 |
466k | Article about the USS Mississippi (BB 41) being overhauled and the launching of the USS Omaha (CL 4). | Tommy Trampp | |
0400419 |
112k | Port side view while underway date and location unknown. | John Spivey | |
0400415 |
58k |
Dress Ship while moored, port side to, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 24 May 1923. National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181. |
Tracy White | |
0400432 |
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U. S. CRUISER MAKES WORLD’S RECORD |
Image and text provided by Alaska State Library Historical Collections. Photo courtesy of The Alaska Daily Empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 31 May 1923, Image 8, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400430 |
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SCOUT CRUISER OMAHA, UNCLE SAM’S FASTEST SHIP |
Image and text provided by Alaska State Library Historical Collections. Photo courtesy of Seward Daily Gateway. [volume] (Seward, Alaska) 1923-1933, 26 June 1923, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400433 |
1.60k |
Omaha (CL 4) passing through the Panama Canal, circa 1925-1926. |
Photo NH 43054 via history.navy.mil | |
0400431 |
1.22k |
Omaha (CL 4) class cruiser. |
National Archives Identifier: 100996530 Local Identifier: 185-G-975 Photo catalog.archives.gov |
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0401327 |
786k | Mines on an Omaha class (CL 4-13) light cruiser taken while the ship was underway at sea, looking aft, showing the very wet conditions that were typical on these cruisers' after decks when they were operating in a seaway. Photographed circa 1923-1925, prior to the addition of a deckhouse just forward of the ships' after twin six-inch gun mount. | Donation of Ronald W. Compton, from the collection of his grandfather, Chief Machinist's Mate William C. Carlson, USN. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo NH-99637 courtesy of history.navy.mil |
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0401328 |
301k | Mines on an Omaha class (CL 4-13) light cruiser seen from off the ship's starboard quarter, showing mines on their tracks fore and aft of the after six-inch gun mount. | Donation of Ronald W. Compton, from the collection of his grandfather, Chief Machinist's Mate William C. Carlson, USN. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo NH-99638 courtesy of history.navy.mil |
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0400441 |
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Ordered to Mexican Waters |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo courtesy of Omaha Daily Bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 20 January 1924, CITY EDITION, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400427 |
289k | USS Omaha (CL 4) in Commencement Bay at the end of July 1924. The Omaha, a 550-foot 'scout cruiser', had steamed into the bay for a week's stay, accompanied by a squadron of six destroyers. The Omaha was the first of a ten ship class of 7,050 ton light cruisers. The ship was built at Todd Dry Dock of Tacoma and launched on 14 December 1920. Tacoma Public Library, Marvin D. Boland Collection, BOLAND-B10599. |
Mike Green | |
116k |
USS Omaha (CL 4) Passing the San Diego Naval Station, circa 1925-1926. Note the F5L seaplanes in the foreground. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 43053. |
USNHC | ||
0400416 |
476k |
Excellent photo of USS Omaha (CL 4), taken in San Diego Bay. Date is not stated, but from a photo collection which is all dated between 1925 and 1929. U.S. Navy Photo. |
David Buell | |
134k | Starboard bow view, 1926 | Jon Burdett | ||
0400414 |
60k |
USS Omaha Liberty Men at Lava Beds at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii in 1932. National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181. |
Tracy White | |
0400413 |
56k |
View looking aft during Omaha's record setting run (at the time) from Honolulu to San Francisco. The run, which occurred in 1932, was completed in 75 Hours and 40 minutes. National Archives, Seattle Branch, Record Group 181. |
Tracy White | |
0400423 |
265k |
As temporary flagship (she flies a four-star flag at the main) for Adm. Richard H. Leigh, the USS Omaha (CL 4) is off Diamond Head, Honolulu, T.H., 20 October 1932. Close investigation of the image reveals a black-hulled admiral’s barge in skids to port of her no.2 stack. U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-CF-2142 |
USNHC | |
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USS Omaha (CL 4) Underway, circa the early 1930s. The original photograph is dated 20 October 1936, but it was actually taken prior to Omaha's 1933 overhaul, during which her topmasts were reduced and a "bathtub" machinegun platform was fitted atop her foremast. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 97971. |
USNHC | ||
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USS Omaha (CL 4) View of the ship's forward superstructure, taken after overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 29 August 1933. Note newly installed machine gun "bathtub" atop Omaha foremast, rangefinders and other fire control facilities on and about the mast, voice tubes running down from the masthead, 6"/53 guns in casemate mountings, and Battle Efficiency "E" painted on the pilothouse. Courtesy of Don S. Montgomery, USN (Retired). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 93507. |
USNHC | ||
0400420 |
59k |
USS Omaha (CL 4) grounded in the Bahamas, 18 July 1937. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #NH 43062 |
USNHC | |
542k |
USS Omaha (CL 4) Aground in the Bahamas, 18 July 1937. Note lighthouse at right and vessels alongside Omaha. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 43061. |
USNHC | ||
0400434 |
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2 NAVY OFFICERS MOVED DOWN ON PROMOTION LIST |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 18 November 1937, Image 12, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400436 |
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CAPT. LIND IN COMMAND OF CRUISER USS OMAHA (CL 4) Ship to Become New Flagship of Temporary Squadron in Europe |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 09 February 1938, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400425 |
139k | Aerial view of the USS Omaha (CL 4) released 10 March 1938, showing clearly the groups of .50 caliber antiaircraft machine guns in the foretop and on the after superstructure, and two Seagulls on her catapults. U.S. National Archives, Photo #19-N-17951 |
Mike Green | |
0400429 |
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Cruiser to Barcelona for Evacuation of Americans |
Image and text provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC. Photo courtesy of Henderson Daily Dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 25 January 1939, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400438 |
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AMERICANS RESCUED UNDER REBEL BOMBS This unusual photograph, taken from the cruiser USS Omaha (CL 4), shows scene in Caldetas Harbor while American refugees from Barcelona were being removed to the United States destroyer Badger (DD-126) and the Omaha. The picture shows an anti-air craft shell (upper right) from a French destroyer bursting over the port while bombs from insurgent planes menaced the Americans, as well as French and British refugees. Note waterspouts raised by two bombs falling in the harbor, also the French destroyers Simoun and Siroco, one of which opened fire. Picture was telephotoed to London and radioed from there to New York. |
A. P. Wirephoto. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 27 January 1939, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400417 |
206k | The body of the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, J. Butler Wright,
arrives in at the Washington Navy Yard on 11 December 1939 aboard the
USS Omaha (CL 4).
Library of Congress, Photo No. LC-H22-D-7984 |
Mike Green | |
71k |
Odenwald Incident, November 1941 - USS Omaha (CL 4), in right center, standing by the German blockade runner Odenwald, which has a U.S. boarding party on board, in the South Atlantic, 6 November 1941. Photographed from USS Somers (DD 381). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 49935. |
USNHC | ||
0400437 |
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THE U. S. NAVY TAKES A PRIZE AT SEA Members of the crew of the disguised ship try to flee in lifeboats as a boarding party from the Omaha (foreground) approaches. As the boarding party reached the side there were two explosions set by the crew in an attempt to scuttle the merchantman. She was taken to San Juan by the cruiser, however. |
Official Navy Photos. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 27 November 1941, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400400 |
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Swastika Hangs High as Spoils of War |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA. Photo courtesy of Imperial Valley Press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 01 December 1941, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400443 |
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Omaha (CL 4) in Miami in 1941. |
Photo courtessy of William A (Adrian) Winget via his grandson, Kingston Winget. | |
0400444 |
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Omaha (CL 4) port bow view while pierside in Miami in 1941. |
Photo courtessy of William A (Adrian) Winget via his grandson, Kingston Winget. | |
114k |
USS Omaha (CL 4) in New York Harbor, 10 February 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-40594. |
National Archives | ||
68k |
USS Omaha (CL 4) off the New York Navy Yard, 10 February 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 97972. |
USNHC | ||
0400426 |
162k | Omaha (CL 4) underway at speed, as seen from a plane flying out of NAS Coco Solo, 19 March 1943. U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-G-567157 |
Mike Green | |
0400440 |
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Charles Doyle Leffler, Jr., Commanded cruiser USS Omaha (CL 4) Capt. Leffler of the Omaha, a native of Sanford, Fla., attended the Miami High School and the Army and Navy Preparatory School in Washington before entering the Naval Academy in 1914. After wide service in ships all over the world, including the Yangtze patrol in China, he was assigned to duty in the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, where he remained from 1939 to 1942. He assumed command of the Omaha in February, 1943. He is 43 years old. |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of Evening Star. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 04 February 1944, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400442 |
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A RECORD PRIZE |
Image and text provided by Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library Photo courtesy of The Ypsilanti Daily Press. ( (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 08 February 1944, Image 8, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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0400424 |
143k | USS Omaha (CL 4) recovers U-177 survivors after they had been rescued by one of the cruiser’s whaleboat crews, 6 February 1944. U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-G-358559 |
Mike Green | |
0400421 |
131k | USS Omaha (CL 4) during the invasion of Southern France, as seen from USS Philadelphia (CL 41) (one of the latter’s Curtiss SOC Seagulls can be seen in the right foreground), in an image received on 1 September 1944. U.S. National Archives, Photo #80-G-256278 |
Mike Green | |
0401220 |
145k | Ex-Marblehead
(CL 12) being scrapped in Dry Dock No. 4 at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard on January 10, 1946. To the left is ex-Cincinnati
(CL 6), behind left is ex-Raleigh
(CL 7) and behind right is ex-Omaha
(CL 4).
Library of Congress, HAER PA,51-PHILA,709D20
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Mike Green | |
0400422 |
448k | Scrapping ex-USS Omaha (CL 4) proceeds at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 10 January 1946. The ex-USS Raleigh (CL 7) is also being scrapped, lying next to the Omaha. USS Omaha DANFS Ship's History Files |
Mike Green | |
0401221 |
166k | Scrapping of ex-Marblehead (CL 12), ex-Cincinnati (CL 6), ex-Omaha (CL 4), and ex-Raleigh (CL 7). Naval Shipyard Philadelphia. February 18, 1946. | Mike Green |
Commanding
Officers
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Name/Rank | Final Rank | Dates |
Hanrahan, David Carlisle, CAPT | 02/24/1923 - 06/14/1924 | |
Horne, Frederick Joseph, CAPT | ADM | 06/14/1924 - 01/16/1926 |
Cole, Cyrus Willard, CAPT | RADM | 01/16/1926 - 08/25/1927 |
Buchanan, Allen, CAPT | 08/25/1927 - 06/11/1929 | |
Downes, John, CAPT | RADM | 11/06/1929 - 05/22/1930 |
Pickens, Andrew Calhoun, CAPT | RADM | 05/22/1930 - 05/14/1932 |
Dowell Jr., Jonathan Stuart, CAPT | 05/14/1932 - 06/04/1934 | |
Woods, James Sterett, CAPT | 06/04/1934 - 12/14/1935 | |
Jones, Herbert Aloysius, CAPT | 12/14/1935 - 09/10/1936 | |
Mecleary, Howard Blaine, CAPT | 09/10/1936 - 01/17/1938 | |
Lind, Wallace Ludwig, CAPT | 01/17/1938 - 02/01/1939 | |
Davidson, Lyal Ament, CAPT | VADM | 02/01/1939 - 09/01/1939 |
Powell, Paulus Prince, CAPT | RADM | 09/01/1939 - 10/15/1941 |
Chandler, Theodore Edson, CAPT | RADM | 10/15/1941 - 04/01/1943 |
Leffler Jr., Charles Doyle, CAPT | 04/01/1943 - 03/10/1944 | |
Tillson, Elwood Morse, CAPT | 03/10/1944 - 06/23/1945 | |
Freseman, William Langfitt, CAPT | 06/23/1945 - 09/24/1945 | |
Lucas, Albert Davis, CDR | 09/24/1945 - 11/01/1945 |
(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)
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