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USS Pittsburgh (CA-72), originally named USS Albany (CA-72), was a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser of the US Navy and the third ship to bear the name. She was laid down on 3 February 1943 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts, launched on 22 February 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Cornelius D. Scully, wife of the Mayor of Pittsburgh and commissioned in ...
USS Pittsburgh (CA-72), originally named Albany, was a Baltimore-class cruiser that served during World War II, and notable for losing her bow in a typhoon, and yet surviving. USS Pittsburgh (SSN-720) was a Los Angeles-class submarine decommissioned in 2019. USS Pittsburgh (LPD-31) is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, currently ...
USS Pittsburgh demonstrates an emergency main ballast tank blow in 1991. Pittsburgh was officially deactivated on 17 January 2020 at the Undersea Warfare Museum in Keyport, Washington, and awaited the Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. She was later decommissioned on 15 April 2020 and the crew ...
USS Pittsburgh (LPD-31), a Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock for the United States Navy, will be the fifth United States Navy vessel named after Pittsburgh. Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite officially announced multiple ship names, including Pittsburgh , during his visit to the oldest U.S. Navy commissioned ship ...
USS Pittsburgh with her bow ripped off. In World War II, only the Canberra was damaged through enemy fire, when she was struck with an air-dropped torpedo on 13 October 1944, which killed 23 men in the engine room and left the ship immobilized. The ship was hit amidships and both boiler rooms were flooded with 3,000 tons of seawater.
The second USS Pennsylvania (ACR/CA-4), also referred to as Armored Cruiser No. 4, and later renamed Pittsburgh, was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class. She was originally assigned the name Nebraska but was renamed Pennsylvania on 7 March 1901.
USS Pittsburgh demonstrates an emergency main ballast blow At 13:43:15, the rapidly ascending Greeneville surfaced directly under Ehime Maru ( 21°05.5′N 157°49.1′W / 21.0917°N 157.8183°W / 21.0917; -157.8183 ), and the submarine's rudder sliced Ehime Maru 's hull from starboard to
The expansive lawn of the memorial sits on top of an underground parking garage operated under a long-term lease by the University of Pittsburgh. It has served as host for many city, civic, university, and business events, including an April 25, 1978, Gulf Oil Corporation shareholders meeting.