Reaching Pearl Harbor on 31 October, USS Baltimore (CA-68) exercised off Oahu with Colhoun (DD-801), Bancroft (DD-598), and a group of PT boats, before returning to port on 7 November. After standing out of San Diego Bay on the 16th of that month, she tarried briefly at San Francisco before proceeding independently to Pearl Harbor where she arrived on the 29th. Calhoun in command.Īfter fitting out, USS Baltimore (CA-68) sailed for Hampton Roads on 17 June and proceeded up the Chesapeake to Annapolis. USS Baltimore (CA-68) then carried out further gunnery exercises and training off the west coast between 9 and 13 October. Jackson, wife of the Mayor of Baltimore and commissioned at the South Boston Annex of the Boston Navy Yard on 15 April 1943, Capt. launched on 28 July 1942 sponsored by Mrs.
USS Baltimore (CA-68) the leader of a new class of post Treaty heavy cruisers was laid down on at Quincy, Mass., by the Fore River plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.
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