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Photo # 80-G-426885:  Launching of USS Topeka, 19 August 1944

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Topeka (CL-67, later CLG-8), 1944-1975 --
Construction & Commissioning


This page features all the views we have related to the construction and commissioning of USS Topeka (CL-67).

For more views related to this ship, see:

  • USS Topeka (CL-67), 1944-1975.


    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 42048

    Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN,

    Commandant, First Naval District; and
    Mrs. Frank Warren, wife of the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas, and Sponsor of USS Topeka (CL-67)

    At launching ceremonies for USS Topeka, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Mrs. Warren is holding the christening champagne bottle.

    Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 70932

    Mrs. Frank Warren
    ,
    Sponsor of USS Topeka (CL-67), and her husband,
    Mayor Frank Warren, of Topeka, Kansas

    At launching ceremonies for USS Topeka, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Mrs. Warren is holding the Sponsor's bouquet.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 70933

    Mrs. Frank Warren
    ,
    Sponsor of USS Topeka (CL-67), and her husband,
    Mayor Frank Warren, of Topeka, Kansas

    At launching ceremonies for USS Topeka, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Mrs. Warren is holding the Sponsor's bouquet, while the Mayor examines the bottle of champagne that will soon be used to christen the ship.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 70934

    Mrs. Frank Warren
    ,
    Sponsor of USS Topeka (CL-67), and her husband,
    Mayor Frank Warren, of Topeka, Kansas

    At launching ceremonies for USS Topeka, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-426885

    USS Topeka (CL-67)


    Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 108KB; 590 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 42046

    USS Topeka (CL-67)


    Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944.

    Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42047

    USS Topeka (CL-67)


    Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944.

    Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-299263

    USS Topeka (CL-67)


    Commissioning ceremonies, at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 23 December 1944.
    Rear Admiral Felix Gygax is speaking.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 69KB; 605 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    For more views related to this ship, see:

  • USS Topeka (CL-67), 1944-1975.


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


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