The Tuscaloosa conducted a test run, known as a shakedown cruise, along the eastern coast of South America and completed post-shakedown repairs at the New York Navy Yard. The ship was launched on November 15, 1933, and commissioned on August 17, 1934, with Capt. The ship also had four floatplanes, used for reconnaissance, which were launched from two catapults, located amidships behind the ship’s smokestacks. The ship originally was armed with eight 0.50-inch machine guns, but the Navy later replaced them with 16 40-mm and 19 20-mm cannon for additional anti-aircraft defense. The Tuscaloosa carried nine 8-inch 55-caliber guns in two armored turrets forward and one armored turret astern, and eight 5-inch 25-caliber guns for anti-aircraft defense. The ship had a complement of 708 officers and enlisted men. Its top speed was nearly 33 knots per hour, or just over 37.5 miles per hour. The cruiser displaced 9,975 tons of water, was just over 588 feet long, had a beam (width) of nearly 62 feet, and sat 19.5 feet deep in the water. The New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden, New Jersey, began construction of the Tuscaloosa on September 3, 1931. An LST-1187 amphibious landing ship launched in 1969 was also named the USS Tuscaloosa. It was the only ship of the seven-member New Orleans class to survive the war without sinking or sustaining major damage. During the war, the ship participated in the 1942 landings in North Africa the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of France the August 1944 invasion of southern France and the 1945 invasions of the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Navy heavy cruiser that the Navy named for the city of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County. The USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) was a World War II-era U.S.
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