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USS Brooklyn (CL 40)

Light cruiser of the Brooklyn class


USS Brooklyn in 1942.

NavyThe US Navy
TypeLight cruiser
ClassBrooklyn 
PennantCL 40 
Built byNew York Navy Yard (New York, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down12 Mar, 1935 
Launched30 Nov, 1936 
Commissioned30 Sep, 1937 
End service3 Jan, 1947 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecomissioned 3 January 1947. Transferred to Chile on 9 January 1951 being renamed O'Higgins.
O'Higgins was decomissioned early in the 1990's and she foundered on the way to the ship breakers. 

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