USS Portsmouth (CL-102)

11,744 ts

186.0 m

20.2 m

• 23.5 m chimney
• 34.5 m mast

7.5 m

1384

4 boilers, 4 steam turbines, 4 shafts, 100,000 hp

32.5 kn

11000 nautical miles at 15 knots

4 Vought OS2U

November - Bravo - November - Lima

The USS Portsmouth (CL -102 ) was a light cruiser of the Cleveland class of the United States Navy.

History

The Portsmouth was laid on June 29, 1943 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia on Kiel. After the christening by Mrs. Marian M. Dale and Mrs. Sarah B. Leigh, the cruiser ran September 20, 1944 from the pile and was on 25 June 1945 under the command of Captain Heber B. Brumbaugh in the U.S. Navy in service provided.

After sea trials off the Cuban coast of the cruisers of the "Operational Development Force " in Norfolk, it was assumed he belonged to the spring of 1946. In May 1946, the Portsmouth then ran to a " goodwill cruise" to Africa and visited Cape Town, Lagos, Freetown, Monrovia, Dakar and Casablanca, as well as Naples and Palermo in the Mediterranean. On 25 November, the cruiser Norfolk left again towards the Mediterranean, where he arrived in Naples on December 7. The Portsmouth then moved to Trieste and remained until February 1947, in the Adriatic. In March she returned to Trieste in April put the cruiser then set course for the United States. From November 1947 to March 1948 was followed by another operation in the Mediterranean to accompany the USS Midway. On March 11, the cruiser was in the Boston Navy Yard for overhaul into dock. After completion of the work the Portsmouth went on several trips with Marine reservists in the Caribbean. On March 9, 1949, the cruiser sailed into the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where the decommissioning has been prepared. The Portsmouth was released on June 15, 1949 from active duty and the Atlantic Reserve Fleet transferred. On January 15, 1971, Portsmouth was deleted from the shipping registers of the U.S. Navy and sold on 21 March 1974 for scrapping.