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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Helena (CA-75), 1945-1974 --
Ship Portraits from the 1950s and 1960s.

This page features ship portrait views of USS Helena (CA-75) taken during the 1950s and early 1960s.

For other images of and relating to this ship, see:

  • USS Helena (CA-75) -- Historical Overview and Ship Portraits from the 1940s;
  • USS Helena (CA-75) -- Korean War Activities; and
  • USS Helena (CA-75) -- Miscellaneous On Board Views and Ship's Insignia.

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 95821

    USS Helena (CA-75)


    In Apra Harbor, Guam, December 1952, while en route to the U.S. following her third Korean War combat tour. During this voyage, she carried President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower and his party from Guam to Pearl Harbor.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95823

    USS Helena (CA-75)


    Underway in January 1957, with a Regulus I guided missile on her fantail launching platform.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, "Our Navy" Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95824

    USS Helena (CA-75)


    With a Regulus I guided missile on her fantail being readied for firing during tests off Monterey, California, in early 1957.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 96899

    USS Helena (CA-75)


    At Hong Kong in 1961-62.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 96900

    USS Helena (CA-75)


    At sea in 1961-62, following modernization with a new foremast supporting the very large antenna for SPS-43 radar.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    For other images of and relating to this ship, see:

  • USS Helena (CA-75) -- Historical Overview and Ship Portraits from the 1940s;
  • USS Helena (CA-75) -- Korean War Activities; and
  • USS Helena (CA-75) -- Miscellaneous On Board Views and Ship's Insignia.

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    3 August 1999