USS Minneapolis (CA-36) at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 11 April 1943
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Minneapolis |
Namesake | City of Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Ordered | 13 February 1929 |
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Builder | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Cost | $11,951,000 (limit of price) |
Laid down | 27 June 1931 |
Launched | 6 September 1933 |
Sponsored by | Miss Grace L. Newton |
Commissioned | 19 May 1934 |
Decommissioned | 10 February 1947 |
Reclassified | CA-36, 1 July 1931 |
Stricken | 1 March 1959 |
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Nickname(s) | "Minnie"[1] |
Honors and awards | 17 × battle stars |
Fate | Scrapped in Chester, Pennsylvania, July 1960 |
General characteristics (as built)[2] | |
Class and type | New Orleans-class cruiser |
Displacement | 9,950 long tons (10,110 t) (standard) |
Length | |
Beam | 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 32.7 kn (37.6 mph; 60.6 km/h) |
Capacity | Fuel oil: 1,650 tons |
Complement | 102 officers 817 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 4 × floatplanes |
Aviation facilities | 2 × Amidship catapults |
General characteristics (1945)[3] | |
Armament |
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Aviation facilities | 1 × Amidship catapults |
USS Minneapolis (CL/CA-36) was a New Orleans-class cruiser built for the United States Navy before the outbreak of World War II, the second ship named for Minneapolis, Minnesota. She served in the Pacific Theater during World War II.