US Navy ship USS Portland World War II Pacific

Fleteher's TF 17 carrier screen during the Battle of Midway (2-6 June) when the Japanese lost four of their carriers. When Lezington (CV-2) was lost the cruiser took on 722 survivors. Kinkaid's Attsek Group 4-8 May when a Japanese invasion force was turned back from Port Moresby, New Guinea during the two-day battle of the Coral Sea. Through the remainder of December and until she operated between the west coast, Hawaii, and Fiji.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Portland was two days out enroute Midway with a carrier group. From thence until the outbreak of war she was engaged in peacetime training and goodwill missions as a unit of Cruiser Division 5, Seouting Force.

where the President disembarked.ĭuring Pactfic Fleet maneuvers Portk~nd crossed the equator for the first time. After calling at Panama and soveral other ports, the two ships steamed to Charleston, S.C. The following days the President and his party fished.

2 October 1935 astern Nou~ton (CA-30) which carried President Franklin D. Seventy-three lives were lost in the disaster including that of Admiral William Moffett, Chief, Bureau of Aeronauties. Racing seaward, she was the first naval vessel at the scene of the disaster, and the task of search and rescue coordination was thus hers. Thirtysix minutes after receipt of the message the ship was underway. The next night she received word that dirigible Akron was down at sea. Leary in command.ĭeparting Boston 1 April 1933, the cruiser arrived Gravesend Bay, N.Y. Brooks of Portland and commissioned 23 February 1933, Captain H. 17 February 1930, Iaunehed sponsored by Mrs.

The first Portland (CA-33), a heavy cruiser, was authorized 13 February 1929, Iaid down by Bethlehem Steel Co., Shipbuilding Div., Quiney, Mass.

US Navy ship USS Portland World War II Pacific