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| History | |
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| 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 |
| Identification |
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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.
- ^ Rickard, J (13 January 2015). "Atlanta Class Cruisers". Historyofwar.org. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "US Cruisers List: US Light/Heavy/AntiAircraft Cruisers, Part 2". Hazegray.org. 24 April 2000. Retrieved 23 October 2015.