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USS MINNEAPOLIS

(CA-36)

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CA-36 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JUN 1931 Keel Date: 27 JUN 1931
at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
SEP 1933 Launch Date: 6 SEP 1933
MAY 1934 Commissioned: 19 MAY 1934
DEC 1941 - - - 20 miles outside Pearl Harbor - 7 DEC 1941
MAY 1942 - - - Battle of the Coral Sea
JUN 1942 - - - Midway - 5 JUN 1942
SEP 1942 - SEP 1942 Guadalcanal - 19 SEP 1942
JUL 1943 - SEP 1945 Middle Pacific
FEB 1945 - APR 1946 Middle Pacific
FEB 1947 Decommissioned: 10 FEB 1947

CA-36 General Specifications

Named for: Minneapolis

Complement: 708 Officers and Enlisted

Displacement: 9950 tons

Length: 574 feet

Beam: 61 feet 9 inches

Draft: 19 feet 5 in

Final Disposition: Scrapped 14 August 1959