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USS Marblehead (CL 12) Being prepared for launching at
the William Cramp & Son shipyard, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 9 October 1923. Courtesy of the San Francisco
Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 69021.
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Undated, Port view. |
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Undated, Port view, pre-war image. |
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Undated starboard side view. |
Russ Padden |
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Undated port side view. |
Russ Padden |
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) steaming at top speed during
trials, 15 August 1924.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46638.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12), on 9 September 1924, at Pier 5
of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Commissioned one day earlier, the
ship is preparing to leave on a cruise that will take her to
English, French, Mediterranean and African ports of call.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, George D. McDowell Collection.
No. P561001B.
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USS Marblehead in an unknown Navy Yard, November 1929.
From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) in harbor, circa the early 1930s.
The location may be San Diego, California. Donation of Franklin
Moran, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 64633.
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USS Marblehead in dry dock #2, Boston Navy Yard, June
1932. The carpenter shop is visible to the left and the Bunker
Hill Monument (obelisk) is above the gun turret. (Caption
updated by Curtis Tammany)
From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.
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USS Marblehead in dry dock #2, Boston Navy Yard, June
1932. (Caption updated by Curtis Tammany)
From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.
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Michael Mohl |
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USS Marblehead in dry dock #2, Boston Navy Yard, June
1932. (Caption updated by Curtis Tammany)
From the Leslie Jones Collection at the Boston Public Library.
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Michael Mohl |
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Overhead, Starboard side underway, January 10 1933.
Excellent image showing details of this class. Image #
(80-G-466558) |
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) Underway in San Diego harbor,
California, 10 January 1935. Photographed from USS
Dobbin (AD 3). Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 64611.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) at Manila Bay in 1939, taken from
one of the Asiatic fleet 4-pipers (either USS
Pope (DD 225) or USS
Edsall (DD 219)).
Navy Memorial via Don Kehn, Jr. & Richard Lillie
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) at Tjilatjap, Java, after she had
been damaged by Japanese high-level bombing attack in the Java
Sea on 4 February 1942. This view shows the effect of an enemy
bomb which struck her stern. Her after 6"/53 gun turret is at
left. Note the blanked off portholes on her hull side.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-237439.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) showing bow-on view, at New York
Navy Yard, N.Y., May 1942 while there for repairs and refit
after returning from the southwest Pacific theater. Her bow was
slightly bent (8" to starboard) in a collision with the Dutch
harbor tug Kraus at Tjilatjap, Java, on 13 February 1942. Note
crew painting ship (top); also anchors.
United States National Archives, Photo No. 80-G-13822 |
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) under repair at the New York Navy
Yard, circa June 1942, after she had been damaged by Japanese
high-level bombing attack in the Java sea on 4 February 1942.
This view shows new deck plating on the cruiser's stern. Her
after 6"/53 gun turret is in the center.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-254938.
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Port quarter view after completion of repairs.
October 1942. |
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) off New York City, 11 October
1942.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-36901.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) off New York City, 14 October
1942. Note the Starboard catapult which is being prepared for
launch.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-34914.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) off New York City, 14 October
1942. Note the Starboard catapult which is being prepared for
launch.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-34910.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) off New York City, 6 May 1944.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives #19-N-69394.
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USS Marblehead (CL 12) underway at sea, 10 May 1944.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center #NH 98035.
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USS
Franklin (CV 13) (at left) Steams past USS
Marblehead (CL 12), in New York Harbor, circa 28 April
1945, after her arrival from the Pacific for battle damage
repairs.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives #80-G-K-4777.
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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,709D—20
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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 |
