USS Toledo in 1949
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Name | Toledo |
Namesake | City of Toledo, Ohio |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 13 September 1943 |
Launched | 6 May 1945 |
Commissioned | 27 October 1946 |
Decommissioned | 21 May 1960 |
Stricken | 1 January 1974 |
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Honors and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Scrapped, 30 October 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Baltimore-class cruiser |
Displacement | 13,600 long tons (13,818 t) |
Length | 674 ft 11 in (205.71 m) |
Beam | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Complement | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
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USS Toledo (CA-133) was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy active during the Korean War.
Toledo was laid down on 13 September 1943 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 6 May 1945, sponsored by Mrs Edward J. Moan, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 27 October 1946, Captain August J. Detzer, Jr., in command.