&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USS_Reno_(CL-96)_under_salvage_after_being_torpedoed_off_the_Philippines,_5_November_1944_(NH_63431).jpg) USS Reno, November 1944, down by the stern two days after being torpedoed
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| Name | Reno |
| Namesake | City of Reno, Nevada |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down | 1 August 1941 |
| Launched | 23 December 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. August C. Frohlich |
| Commissioned | 28 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 4 November 1946 |
| Reclassified | CLAA-96 18 March 1949 |
| Stricken | 1 March 1959 |
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| Fate | Scrapped in 1962 |
| General characteristics (as built)[1][2][3] | |
| Class and type | Atlanta-class light cruiser |
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| Length | 541 ft 6 in (165.05 m) oa |
| Beam | 53 ft (16 m) |
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| Speed | 32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h) |
| Complement | 688 officers and enlisted |
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USS Reno (CL-96) was an updated Atlanta-class light cruiser - sometimes referred to as an "Oakland-class" - designed and built to specialize in antiaircraft warfare. She was the first warship to be named for the city of Reno, Nevada. Reno (DD-303) was a destroyer named for Lt. Commander Walter E. Reno.
Reno was laid down by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, at San Francisco, California, on 1 August 1941. She was launched on 23 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. August C. Frohlich; and commissioned on 28 December 1943.[4] The USS Reno spent her entire service life in the Pacific War, and its immediate aftermath, during 1944 through 1946.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Terzibashitsch, Stefan (1984). Cruisers of the US Navy 1922-1962. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-974-X.
- ^ "USS Reno II (CL-96)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.