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Photo # NH 94707:  USS Portsmouth at sea, 22 April 1946

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USS Portsmouth (CL-102), 1945-1974

USS Portsmouth, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned in late June 1945, less than two months before Japan's decision to surrender effectively ended World War II, she spent her entire career in the Atlantic Fleet. The new cruiser's first active service, lasting into 1946, was with the Operational Development Force. During mid-1946 Portsmouth steamed along the African coast from Capetown to Casablanca and briefly visited the Mediterranean Sea. She made a regular deployment to the latter area from November 1946 to April 1947, visiting the disputed city of Trieste twice during that cruise. Portsmouth again operated in the Mediterranean in late 1947 and early 1948, then served along the East Coast and in the Caribbean. She was decommissioned in mid-June 1949, in response to major reductions in the Navy's budget. USS Portsmouth remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in December 1970. She was sold for scrapping in March 1974.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Portsmouth (CL-102).


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Photo #: NH 94704

USS Portsmouth (CL-102)


Off Newport News, Virginia, 25 June 1945, while being delivered to the Navy by her builder, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 94705

USS Portsmouth (CL-102)


Off the Portsmouth (Norfolk) Navy Yard, Virginia, 22 July 1945.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 555 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 94706

USS Portsmouth (CL-102)


Off the Portsmouth (Norfolk) Navy Yard, Virginia, 22 July 1945.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 94707

USS Portsmouth (CL-102)


Underway at sea, 22 April 1948.
Photographed from USS Providence (CL-82).

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-343434

USS Providence (CL-82)
;
USS Little Rock (CL-92); and
USS Portsmouth (CL-102) (listed left to right)

At San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15 May 1948.
Note the differing radar antenna rigs, and other details of these three Cleveland class light cruisers, each ten numbers apart in the cruiser hull number series.

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

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 72660

USS Fargo (CL-106)


Laid up in the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, in about 1965.
USS Portsmouth (CL-102) is at right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 72662

USS Fargo (CL-106)


Laid up in the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, in about 1965. Photographed from on board the ship, looking forward from the stern, with her after 6"/47 gun turrets in the foreground.
USS Portsmouth (CL-102) is at left.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 98KB; 590 x 765 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Portsmouth (CL-102). The following list features this image:

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



  • Photo #: 80-G-380656
    USS Portsmouth (CL-102) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 24 May 1946.
    Port bow surface view, rather toward the side. The ship is still painted in World War II camouflage, probably Measure 22.

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

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


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


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