Heavy Cruiser Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa

País	Estados Unidos
Classe de Navio	Cruzador Pesado da Classe New Orleans
Estaleiro	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, United States
Data de Quilha	3 set 1931
Data de Lançamento	15 nov 1933
Data de Incorporação	17 ago 1934
Data de Desincorporação	13 fev 1946
Deslocamento	9,950 tons standard
Comprimento	588 feet
Boca	62 feet
Calado	19 feet
Velocidade	32 knots
Tripulação	708
Armamento	9x8in, 8x5in, 8x12.7mm

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Photographs

Tuscaloosa steaming at high speed, probably during trials in 1934

Tuscaloosa hoisting a SOC Seagull floatplane from the sea, while en route to Iceland, Sep 1941; note another SOC aircraft on starboard catapult

USS Tuscaloosa in Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom while she was operating with the British Home Fleet, April 1942. The British heavy cruiser HMS London is in the background.

HMS Edinburgh and the cruiser USS Tuscaloosa underway in the Atlantic Ocean while escorting USS Wasp, 3 Apr 1942; side 1 of photo

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Tuscaloosa Operational Timeline

17 ago 1934	Tuscaloosa was commissioned into service.
29 mai 1941	Task Group 3, comprised of aircraft carrier USS Ranger, heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa, and destroyers USS McDougal and Eberle, sailed from Bermuda on a 4,355-mile Neutrality Patrol in the Atlantic.
8 jun 1941	USS Ranger, USS Tuscaloosa, and their task group returned to Bermuda and conclude their ten-day Neutrality Patrol.
26 mar 1942	US Navy warships Washington, Wasp, Wichita, Tuscaloosa, and eight destroyers sailed from Portland, Maine, United States for Britain to reinforce the Royal Navy Home Fleet.
2 jan 1945	USS Missouri and USS Tuscaloosa with USS Bailey, Bancroft and Wadsworth as escorts departed US Territory of Hawaii for Ulithi, Caroline Islands.
13 jan 1945	USS Missouri and USS Tuscaloosa with USS Bailey, Bancroft and Wadsworth as escorts arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands.
13 fev 1946	Tuscaloosa was decommissioned from service.

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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Steven K. Hilton says:
6 Mar 2023 07:31:12 PM

Eugene Harold Hilton CWO ll, USS Tuscaloosa crew list 1946

2. John swift says:
26 Aug 2025 12:55:28 PM

Can't find my dad's name on crew list.onboard 43 till end of war.william w swift glen cove ny
Ca 37 uss Tuscaloosa

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