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

USS Toledo (CA-133), 1946-1974

USS Toledo, a 13,600-ton Baltimore class heavy cruiser built at Camden, New Jersey was commissioned in October 1946. Following a Caribbean area shakedown cruise, in April 1947 she went to the Far East by way of the Suez Canal to begin a career of regular WestPac deployments. Toledo had just completed the third of these cruises when the outbreak of the Korean War in late June 1950 caused a hurried return to Asiatic waters. From July through October, her guns helped United Nations forces slow and stop the North Korean invaders, then, in landings at Inchon and Wonsan, throw them into retreat. In 1951 and 1952-53, Toledo made two more Korean War tours to provide gunfire support for the forces ashore.

Following the end of the Korean war in July 1953, Toledo continued her Seventh Fleet services, deploying six more times through November 1959. In January 1955, she supported the evacuation of the Tachen Islands, off the coast of China. The cruiser visited Australia in April and May 1958, as part of the commemoration of the 16th anniversary of the Battle of Coral Sea. USS Toledo was decommissioned in May 1960. She stayed in "mothballs" until October 1974, when she was sold for scrapping.

This page presents views of and related to USS Toledo (CA-133).

For additional views, featuring this ship's Korean War service, see USS Toledo (CA-133) -- Korean War Activities.

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 96901

USS Toledo (CA-133)


Off the east coast of Korea while operating with Task Force 77.
Photographed from a USS Essex (CV-9) aircraft. Original photo is dated 6 September 1951.

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

Online Image: 163KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 96902

USS Toledo (CA-133)


Underway in Korean waters, with a battleship and a destroyer in the right distance.
The original photo is dated 2 November 1952.

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

Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 94339

Commander Ho Tan Quyen
,
Active Naval Deputy, Republic of Vietnam Navy

With Rear Admiral Alfred G. Ward, USN, Commander Cruiser Division One, on board USS Toledo (CA-133), during the ship's visit to Saigon for Vietnamese Independence Day celebrations, 27 October 1959.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 625 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69545-KN (Color)

USS Toledo (CA-133)

Jacket patch of the ship's insignia, as used in about 1958.

Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 122KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 

For additional views, featuring this ship's Korean War service, see USS Toledo (CA-133) -- Korean War Activities.

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


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2 August 1999