USS Fall River (CA-131)

The USS Fall River (CA -131 ) was a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy and was a member of the Baltimore class.

History

The Fall River in 1943 was placed at New York Shipbuilding keel and ran some 13 months later from the stack. The official commissioning ceremony was a year later, on 1 July 1945.

Early in 1946, the Fall River was assigned to organize the Operation Crossroads, the world's first nuclear weapon test series. For this purpose, the cruiser was first ordered to the Todd Pacific Shipyards in San Pedro, California, where the bodies were changed to make way for a General Staff. Well, equipped as a flagship, the Fall River steamed to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where Rear Admiral FG Werwigk its flag set. With Werwigk and his staff the Fall River was during the tests in the Marshall Islands on site.

Early to mid- 1947, the Fall River moved then for the first time as the flagship of Cruiser Division 1 to the Far East. After the laying of the cruiser was fed 31 October of the year in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard the reserve fleet. In this he remained until 1971, when the ship from the Naval Vessel Register painted and then passed on for testing purposes at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.