USS Rochester (CA-124)
USS Rochester in February 1956 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Rochester |
| Namesake | Rochester, New York |
| Builder | Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
| Laid down | 29 May 1944 |
| Launched | 28 August 1945 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. M. Herbert Eisenhart |
| Commissioned | 20 December 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 15 August 1961 |
| Stricken | 1 October 1973 |
| Identification |
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| Honours & awards | See Awards |
| Fate | Scrapped, 24 September 1974 |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Oregon City-class heavy cruiser |
| Displacement | 13,700 tons |
| Length | 674 ft 11 in (205.71 m) |
| Beam | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft 7 in (6.27 m) |
| Speed | 33 kn (61 km/h) |
| Complement | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried | 4 |
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The third USS Rochester (CA-124), an Oregon City-class heavy cruiser, was laid down 29 May 1944 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts; launched 28 August 1945; sponsored by Mrs. M. Herbert Eisenhart, wife of the president of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, New York; and commissioned 20 December 1946 at the Boston Navy Yard.
Rochester departed Provincetown, Mass., 22 February 1947 for shakedown out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By the end of April, she was at Philadelphia, ready to commence nine extended naval reserve training cruises which took her north to Casco Bay and south to the Caribbean.