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USS Trenton (CL-11) in 1935.
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History | |
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Name | Trenton |
Namesake | City of Trenton, New Jersey |
Ordered | 1 July 1918 |
Awarded | 24 January 1919 |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Yard number | 501 |
Laid down | 18 August 1920 |
Launched | 16 April 1923 |
Sponsored by | Miss Katherine E. Donnelly |
Completed | 1 October 1921 |
Commissioned | 19 April 1924 |
Decommissioned | 20 December 1945 |
Stricken | 21 January 1946 |
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Honors and awards | 1 × battle star |
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General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Omaha-class light cruiser |
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Beam | 55 ft (17 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) (mean) |
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Crew | 29 officers 429 enlisted (peace time) |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × Curtiss SOC Seagulls and later 2 x Vought OS2U Kingfishers |
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General characteristics (1945) | |
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USS Trenton (CL-11) was an Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named for the city of Trenton, New Jersey. She spent most of her pre-war career moving between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Trenton joined the Special Service Squadron in 1934, for a good-will tour of Latin America. In May 1939, she would join Squadron 40-T in protecting American interests during the Spanish Civil War and not return to the US until July 1940, when she carried the royal family of Luxembourg, fleeing from the Nazi occupation of their country.[1]