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

USS Topeka (CL-67, later CLG-8), 1944-1975 --
National Archives Photos


This page features photographs of USS Topeka (CL-67, later CLG-8) that should be available from the National Archives.

For more views related to this ship, see:

  • USS Topeka (CL-67), 1944-1975.


    In addition to the images presented on other pages, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Topeka (CL-67, later CLG-8). The following list features some of these images:

    The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: USN 1078842
    USS Topeka (CLG-8) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, May 1962.
    Port broadside surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1069553
    USS Topeka (CLG-8) underway from U.S. Naval Station Terminal Island, Long Beach, California, 4 March 1963. Photographed by PH1 Rosendale.
    Port quarter aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1081148
    USS Topeka (CLG-8) off the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, California, July 1963.
    Surface view, taken from directly off the ship's stern.

  • Photo #: USN 1081149
    As above, but taken from directly off the ship's bow.

  • Photo #: USN 1081150
    As above, but taken from off the ship's port quarter.

  • Photo #: USN 1081151
    As above, but taken from off the ship's port bow.

  • Photo #: USN 1081152
    As above, but taken from off the ship's port bow, more toward the broadside than USN 1081151.

  • Photo #: USN 1081153
    As above, but taken from off the ship's starboard quarter. This image is disfigured by typed text in its lower part

  • Photo #: USN 1081154
    As USN 1081152, but taken from off the ship's starboard broadside, somewhat toward the stern. The shipyard is in the background and a boat's wake is in the foreground.

  • Photo #: USN 1081155
    As USN 1081152, but taken from off the ship's starboard bow.

  • Photo #: KN-9039 (color)
    USS Topeka (CLG-8) underway off Oahu, Hawaii, 21 March 1964. Photographed by PH2 Antoine.
    Port bow low aerial view, taken from about the level of the top of the ship's forward gun director. The Oahu coast is visible in the background.

  • Photo #: KN-9040 (color)
    As above, but port broadside high aerial view with no land or horizon visible.

  • Photo #: USN 1104836
    USS Topeka (CLG-8) underway at sea on 9 April 1964. Photographed by PHCS P. Rutledge, of USS Kitty Hawk (CVS-63).
    Port bow aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1104837
    As above, but port broadside aerial view.

  • Photo #: KN-11314 (color)
    "USS Topeka (CLG-8) gets a bullseye as she fires her 5" 38 cal. mount simultaneously with her after battery of Terrier missiles in a test to see if the gunfire would affect the guidance system of the missile. It didn't and the bird scored a bullseye. USS Topeka was on a Western Pacific cruise in the Okinawa range at that time." (original caption). Photograph dated July 1964.
    View on board, taken from the port deck edge, looking aft from in front of the ship's forward 6"/47 triple gun turret. Both of her six-inch gun turrets and her port side 5"/38 gun mount are trained on the port broadside. The latter is firing as a "Terrier" guided missile zooms away to port, with a trail of smoke behind it. The left edge of the view crops off the starboard side of the ship's forward superstructure and all but the front portion of both 6" gun turrets.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".

  • For more views related to this ship, see:

  • USS Topeka (CL-67), 1944-1975.


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