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  2. USS San Diego - Wikipedia

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    USS San Diego may refer to: USS San Diego (CA-6), originally the armored cruiser California (1907–1914); renamed San Diego (1914–1918) USS San Diego (CL-53), a light cruiser commissioned in 1942 in service throughout the Pacific War, and decommissioned 1946; USS San Diego (AFS-6), a combat stores ship in service from 1969 to 1997

  3. USS San Diego (CL-53) - Wikipedia

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    The USS San Diego (CL-53) was an Atlanta-class light cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned just after the US entry into World War II, and active throughout the Pacific theater. Armed with 16 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal DP anti-aircraft guns and 16 Bofors 40 mm AA guns, the Atlanta -class cruisers had one of the heaviest anti-aircraft ...

  4. USS San Diego (LPD-22) - Wikipedia

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    USS San Diego will project American power to the far corners of the earth and support the cause of freedom well into the 21st century. The city is the home of Naval Base San Diego, the Navy's largest base in the Pacific, and Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, the United States Marine Corps' west coast recruit training center.

  5. USS California (ACR-6) - Wikipedia

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    California was renamed San Diego on 1 September 1914, in order to free up her original name for use with the Tennessee-class battleship California. She served as flagship for Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, intermittently until a boiler explosion put her in Mare Island Navy Yard in reduced commission through the summer of 1915.

  6. List of United States Navy ships: S - Wikipedia

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    USS San Jacinto (1850, CV-30/CVL-30/AVT-5, CG-56) USS San Joaquin (1876, AKA-109) USS San Joaquin County ; USS San Jose (AFS-7/T-AFS-7) USS San Juan (ID-1352, SP-2262, SP-3306, CL-54/CLAA-54, SSN-751) USS San Leandro (YFB-34, YFB-60) USS San Marcos (1911, LSD-25) USS San Mateo ; USS San Onofre ; USS San Pablo (AVP-30/AGS-30) USS San Pedro (PG ...

  7. USS San Diego (AFS-6) - Wikipedia

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    USS San Diego (AFS-6) was a Mars-class combat stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1968. She served the U.S. Atlantic Fleet until decommissioned in 1993. She then was redesignated as a United States Naval Ship, assigned to the Military Sealift Command, and served in a non-commissioned status with a mostly civilian crew as USNS San Diego (T-AFS-6) until 1997.

  8. Robert Webster Cary - Wikipedia

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    For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on the occasion of an explosion on board the U.S.S. San Diego, 21 January 1915. Lt. Comdr. Cary (then Ensign), United States Navy, an observer on duty in the firerooms of the U.S.S. San Diego, commenced to take the half-hourly readings of the steam pressure at every boiler.

  9. Robert L. Leuschner Jr. - Wikipedia

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    He was Commander of the nuclear-powered carrier USS Enterprise from 1983 to 1986. [1] [2] A native of Texas, he was born in Waco, and later moved with his family to San Diego, California, where he graduated from high school. In 1953, he was admitted to Rice Institute in Houston, where he enrolled in the chemical engineering curriculum.