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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Rochester (CA-124), 1946-1973 --
Ship Portrait Views and Historical Overview.
USS Rochester, a 13,700-ton Oregon City class
heavy cruiser, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned
in December 1946, She performed her first three years' service
in the Atlantic, making one deployment to the Mediterranean in
1948. Early in 1950, Rochester shifted to the Pacific,
and was soon sent to the Far East to become Seventh Fleet flagship.
She served there until January 1951, taking an active part in
Korean War operations and the Formosa Straits patrol.
Rochester made two more Korean War combat tours during
1951-53. She was then modernized, receiving new anti-aircraft
guns and other equipment. The rest of the 1950s saw her return
to the Far East for five more Seventh Fleet deployments. Rochester's
ninth, and final, Western Pacific cruise took place in April-October
1960. She was decommissioned in August 1961 and spent the next
dozen years in reserve at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. USS
Rochester was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in
October 1973 and was subsequently sold for scrapping.
This page features portrait views of USS Rochester.
For other images of and on board this ship during and after
her Korean War tours, and of her insignia, see:
USS Rochester (CA-124) Korean
War Activities; and
USS Rochester (CA-124) Post-Korean
War 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 96882
USS Rochester (CA-124)
Photographed in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 19 December 1946,
the day before her commissioning ceremonies.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 96883
USS Rochester (CA-124)
Photograph dated 27 June 1950. However, radar antenna on foremast
is of a type that was replaced prior to the ship's 1950 Western
Pacific deployment, indicating that this view was taken during
the later 1940s.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 96884
USS Rochester (CA-124)
En route to the Shimonoseki Strait, Japan, after operations off
the east coast of Korea. Probably taken during her December 1952
-- March 1953 Korean War combat tour.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 96885
USS Rochester (CA-124)
Photographed in 1951-53, prior to her May-September 1953 overhaul.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 84584
USS Rochester (CA-124)
Departing the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, 20 September
1953, following overhaul. She has been fitted with 3"/50
twin automatic gun mounts, replacing the 40mm guns she carried
from 1946 to 1953.
Tugs Dekaury (YTB-178) --at left-- and Awatobi
(YTB-264) -- alongside her starboard side, forward-- are assisting
her.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 584 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 74136
USS Rochester (CA-124)
En route to Saigon, Vietnam, 17 February 1954.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 565 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 94306
USS Rochester (CA-124)
Underway in San Francisco Bay, California, at the time of Fleet
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' review of the First Fleet, 13 June
1957.
Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri, 1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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For other images of and on board this ship during and after
her Korean War tours, and of her insignia, see:
USS Rochester (CA-124) Korean
War Activities; and
USS Rochester (CA-124) Post-Korean
War 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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1 August 1999