USS Trenton (CL-11)

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USS Trenton (CL-11) in 1935.
History
United States
Name	Trenton
Namesake	City of Trenton, New Jersey
Ordered	1 July 1918
Awarded	24 January 1919
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	501
Laid down	18 August 1920
Launched	16 April 1923
Sponsored by	Miss Katherine E. Donnelly
Completed	1 October 1921
Commissioned	19 April 1924
Decommissioned	20 December 1945
Stricken	21 January 1946
Identification	Hull symbol: CL-11 Code letters: NISR
Honors and awards	1 × battle star
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 29 December 1946 Scrapped at Baltimore 1947
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Omaha-class light cruiser
Displacement	7,050 long tons (7,163 t) (standard) 9,508 long tons (9,661 t) (loaded)
Length	555 ft 6 in (169.32 m) oa 550 ft (170 m) pp
Beam	55 ft (17 m)
Draft	14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) (mean)
Installed power	12 × White-Forster boilers 90,000 ihp (67,000 kW) (Estimated power produced on trials)
Propulsion	4 × Parsons steam turbines 4 × screws
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) 33.7 knots (62.4 km/h; 38.8 mph) (Estimated speed on Trial)
Crew	29 officers 429 enlisted (peace time)
Armament	2 × twin 6 in (150 mm)/53 caliber guns 8 × single 6 in/53 caliber guns 4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns anti-aircraft 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes 224 × mines (removed soon after completion)
Armor	Belt: 3 in (76 mm) Deck: 1+1⁄2 in (38 mm) Conning Tower: 1+1⁄2 in Bulkheads: 1+1⁄2-3 in
Aircraft carried	2 × Curtiss SOC Seagulls and later 2 x Vought OS2U Kingfishers
Aviation facilities	2 × Amidship catapults crane
General characteristics (1945)
Armament	2 × twin 6 in/53 caliber 6 × single 6 in/53 caliber 8 × 3 in/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes 3 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns 12 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons

USS Trenton (CL-11) was an Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named for the city of Trenton, New Jersey. She spent most of her pre-war career moving between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Trenton joined the Special Service Squadron in 1934, for a good-will tour of Latin America. In May 1939, she would join Squadron 40-T in protecting American interests during the Spanish Civil War and not return to the US until July 1940, when she carried the royal family of Luxembourg, fleeing from the Nazi occupation of their country.^[1]