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"(BX1) QUINCY, MASS., JULY 28-NEW CRUISER SLIDES DOWN WAYS-The new U.S. Navy cruiser U>S>S> Baltimore , fourth American warship to bear that name, slides down the ways into Weymouth Fore River in a launching today at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Yard.(AP wirephoto )(BW31355FOX)1942"

Starboard side view while at anchor, date and location unknown.

U.S. Navy Photo.

Starboard bow view while at anchor, date and location unknown.

U.S. Navy Photo.

Starboard view showing general deck arrangements, 15 April 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo.

Nice overhead view, date and location unknown.

U.S. Navy Photo.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) underway in Boston harbor, Massachusetts, 15 April 1943 [the day she was commissioned]. Note that she has not yet received her radar antennas. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Collection of James C. Fahey.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91454.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) In Boston harbor, Massachusetts, 15 April 1943. Note her twin aircraft cranes and broad transom. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Collection of James C. Fahey.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91457.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Underway off the Massachusetts coast, 18 June 1943. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Collection of Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91450.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 10 September 1943. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Collection of James C. Fahey.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91451.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 10 September 1943. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Collection of James C. Fahey.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91452.

Stern view of the USS Baltimore (CA 68) departing Mare Island on 25 Oct 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #7274-43.

Bow view of the USS Baltimore (CA 68) departing Mare Island on 25 Oct 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #7275-43.

Broadside view of the USS Baltimore (CA 68) off Mare Island on 25 Oct 1943. She was at Mare Island from 17 Oct until 25 Oct 1943.

U.S. Navy Photo #7277-43.

Camouflage Measure 31-32-33 Series, Design 16D

Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for heavy cruisers of the CA 68 (Baltimore) class. USS Baltimore (CA 68) is known to have worn this pattern. This plan, showing the ship's starboard side, stern, superstructure ends, and exposed decks, is dated 30 December 1943 and was approved by Captain Henry A. Ingram, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photo #80-G-109723

Camouflage Measure 31-32-33 Series, Design 16D

Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for heavy cruisers of the CA 68 (Baltimore) class. USS Baltimore (CA 68) is known to have worn this pattern. This plan, showing the ship's port side, is dated 30 December 1943 and was approved by Captain Henry A. Ingram, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photo #80-G-109724

Forward plan view of USS Baltimore (CA 68) at Mare Island on 16 July 44. She was at the yard from 6 July until 17 July 1944. The USS Vestal (AR 4) is in the background.

U.S. Navy photo #4543-44

Aft plan view of USS Baltimore (CA 68) at Mare Island on 16 July 44. She was at the yard from 6 July until 17 July 1944. The USS Vestal (AR 4) is in the background.

U.S. Navy photo #4546-44

President Franklin D. Roosevelt chats with the commanding officer of USS Baltimore (CA 68), Captain Walter C. Calhoun while in Pearl Harbor, 26 July 1944. Behind them are L to R: General Douglas Macarthur, USA, and Lieutenant General R.C. Richardson, USA.

Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #NH 62430

Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #NH 62961

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 18 October 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 16d. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Collection of James C. Fahey.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91464.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 18 October 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 16d. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. Collection of James C. Fahey.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91462.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Plan view, forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944, at the end of an overhaul. USS Indianapolis (CA 35) is in the background. Note the two different types of 8"/55 guns and turrets mounted on these heavy cruisers, and the paravanes aboard Baltimore. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-74297.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Plan view, amidships, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944, at the end of an overhaul. USS Indianapolis (CA 35) is in the background. Note Baltimore's 5"/38 guns, armored conning tower, smokestacks and whaleboat. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.

High Resolution (1.2mb) version of this photo, courtesy of Pieter Bakels

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-74298.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) Plan view, aft, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944, at the end of an overhaul. Note Baltimore's 5"/38 and 40mm guns, Mark 37 and Mark 34 gun directors (with antenna for Mark 8 radar atop the latter), OS2U floatplanes and aircraft cranes. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Several barges are moored in the distance, among them YF-461, YF-791 and YD-64.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives #19-N-74299.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, while undergoing reactivation in 1951. The original print is dated 28 November 1951, the day Baltimore was recommissioned, but was probably taken somewhat earlier.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98241.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) underway in San Francisco Bay, late 1951. Note the Ship's band playing on the fantail.

Photograph by Allied Photographers of San Francisco.

Electronics Technician 3rd Class A.L. Gardoni (left) and Electronics Technician 1st Class D.A. Haapapuru working on electronics equipment on board the cruiser circa 1951-1956.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 98242.

Portside view while at anchor in April 1952, location unknown.

U.S. Navy photo.

Moored in Lisbon, Portugal on 3 October 1952. By all the crew on deck in blues and the people on the pier, it appears that she has just arrived in port. The USS Des Moines (CA 134) moored forward of Baltimore.

US Navy photo #448992

Portside view while underway in November 1952, location unknown.

U.S. Navy photo.

The crew manning the rails in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, during the United Kingdom's Coronation Naval Review off Spithead, England, in June 1953. The ship just astern of Baltimore is HMS Starling (F 66). Note life rafts stowed atop the cruiser's after 8"/55 triple gun turret; motor launch on deck at left and HUP helicopter parked just in front of the hangar hatch.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 91465.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) taking part in the Spithead Coronation review for the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 15 June 1953.

Life Magazine Archives, Carl Mydans photographer, shared by Peter DeForest.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) anchored in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 22 September 1954.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 52422.

Sailors removing bucklers from the 8"/55 guns of her Number Two turret, while preparing her for decommissioning at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Photo is stamped with the date 28 May 1956. The men are identified as GM1 B.J. Belue, SN J.L. Tinkle, GM2 J.R. Marue, GM3 G.A. Bushur and GM2 R.D. Brehm.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98245.

USS Baltimore (CA 68) in drydock at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, while preparing for decommissioning. Photo is stamped with the date 28 May 1956. Original caption reads: "Looking like new, after painting, the anchor chain is hauled back aboard."

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98244.