USS Juneau underway on 1 July 1951
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Juneau |
Namesake | City of Juneau, Alaska |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 15 September 1944 |
Launched | 15 July 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. B. L. Bartlett |
Commissioned | 15 February 1946 |
Decommissioned | 23 July 1955 |
Reclassified | CLAA-119, 18 March 1949 |
Stricken | 1 November 1959 |
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Nickname(s) | The Galloping Ghost |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Scrapped, 29 April 1960 |
General characteristics (as built)[1][2] | |
Class and type | Juneau-class light cruiser |
Displacement | 6,500 tons (standard); 8,450 tons (loaded) |
Length | 541 ft 0 in (164.9 m) |
Beam | 52 ft 10 in (16.1 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.2 m) |
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Speed | 32.7 knots (61 km/h) |
Range | 6,440 nautical miles (11,930 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × lifeboats |
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The second USS Juneau (CL-119/CLAA-119) was the lead ship of the United States Navy Juneau-class cruisers.