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USS Helena was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s, the ninth and final member of the class.The Brooklyns were the first modern light cruisers built by the US Navy under the limitations of the London Naval Treaty, and they were intended to counter the Japanese Mogami class; as such, they carried a battery of fifteen 6-inch (150 mm) guns, the same ...
USS Helena (CL-50) was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, commissioned in 1939, that saw heavy action in the Solomon Islands during World War II, ultimately being sunk in the Battle of Kula Gulf in July 1943. USS Helena (CL-113) was a planned Fargo-class light cruiser canceled in 1944 while under construction.
USS Helena (CA-75), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Helena, Montana. Originally laid down as the USS Des Moines , she was renamed Helena while under construction after the 5 October 1944 cancellation of the Fargo -class light cruiser USS Helena (CL-113).
Aboard USS Nicholas after being rescued, Commander Charles L. Carpenter, Helena ' s navigator (center right, with moustache), still drenched in fuel oil after being rescued with other crew members. USS Helena survivors greeted by Admiral Walden Ainsworth, with cap, about July 7, 1943. Commander Charles L. Carpenter, senior officer of the first ...
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Helena signaled a nearby US B-17 bomber on patrol to notify Allied headquarters to send aircraft or ships to search for survivors. In actual fact, approximately 100 of Juneau ' s crew had survived the torpedo attack and the sinking of their ship and were left in the water. The B-17 bomber crew, under orders not to break radio silence, did not ...
USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts , she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928, was renamed after the Oglala , a sub-tribe of the Lakota , residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota .
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...