Allied Warships

USS St. Paul (CA 73)

Heavy cruiser of the Baltimore class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeHeavy cruiser
ClassBaltimore 
PennantCA 73 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down3 Feb 1943 
Launched16 Sep 1944 
Commissioned17 Feb 1945 
End service30 Apr 1971 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 30 April 1971.
stricken 31 July 1978.
Sold in January 1980 to be broken up for scrap.

 

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1Capt. Ernest Herman von Heimburg, USN17 Feb 1945???

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