47°33′47″N 122°37′35″W / 47.5631883°N 122.6265155°W
USS Bremerton off San Francisco, in 1955
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Bremerton |
Namesake | City of Bremerton, Washington |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 1 February 1943 |
Launched | 2 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 29 April 1945 |
Decommissioned | 9 April 1948 |
Recommissioned | 23 November 1951 |
Decommissioned | 29 July 1960 |
Stricken | 1 October 1973 |
Identification |
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Motto | Better Be |
Honours and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Scrapped, October 1973 |
Notes | Bell at the Bremerton Naval Shipyard Museum |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Baltimore-class heavy cruiser |
Displacement | 13,600 tons |
Length | 673 ft 5 in |
Beam | 70 ft 10 in |
Draft | 26 ft 10 in |
Speed | 33 knots |
Complement | 1042 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Bremerton (CA-130), was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, named for the city of Bremerton in Washington state.