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wyifjqm ire N We asain. av'- 'L 1-ag ii 'FC 22 fy- D Q 151 Q f'x The heavy cruiser USS ALBANY is launched: June 10, 1945 first mercantile convoy of the war under a United States command. From this time until the signing of the armistice, she gave protection to 224 mer- chant vessels during eleven convoy e-srort voyage-5 across the Atlantic, operating as a unit of ine cruis- er Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet during the latter pa- riod of this service. ln 1919, she stearnc 1'e A ap igin the Asiatic Fleet, spending much of her 'irne in the region of Vladivostok, Siberia, where shi? cent land- ing forces ashore and gave other importsiril- support to the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Siberia. Gm August 6, 1922, ALBANY returned to the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, where she was decommissioned on October 10 the same year, l-lar name was stricken from the Navy list on November 3, 1929, and she was sold on February 11, 1930. The fourth ALBANY, now a guided missile cruiser, was built as a heavy cruiser, CA 123, by the Bethlehem Steel Company of Quincy, Massachu- setts. l-ler keel was laid on March 6, 1944 and she was launched on June 10, 1945 under the sponsor- ship of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Pinckney of Albany, New York, whose son was a prisoner-of-war in Germany. The ship was bought by the citizens of Albany through their subscriptions of over 540,000,000 in United States War Bonds. ALBANY was placed in commission at the Bos- ton Navy Yard on June 15, 1946 under the command of Captain H, A. Carlisle, USN. After conducting trial runs off Provincetown, Massachusetts, shake- down training operations while based at Casco Bay, Maine, and returning to Boston for alterations, she arrived in her home port of Norfolk on January 21, 1947. During the next year and a half, she made several Midshipman training cruises and engaged in routine exercises which took her to ports along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Argentina, On September 11, 1948, ALBANY sailed from Norfolk for a seven month tour of duty in the Medi- terranean area as flagship of Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Commander Sixth Fleet. ln Vice Ad- miral Sherman's farewell speech to the Crew of ALBANY prior to transferring his flag to U55 FARGO, he commended the crew on the axcelienf '-e-' 4... X wil eSl 5 0 l Zard cam' l ll tial Seto' lan U, S moili C and WMC' ioi T Medi Hallo pal D S Ns I X
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