70 years ago today: Oregon City-class heavy cruiser USS Albany (CA-123) moored between two British cruisers (appear to be Fiji class) in Valletta Harbor, Malta. Sunset, 28 November 1950
Catalog #: 80-G-429269
Albany, commissioned 15 June 1946, was a 14,000-ton brawler completed too late for WWII– she wasn’t laid down until three months before D-Day– but she did spend some significant time with the 6th Fleet in the Med (hence the image above) and would go on to be extensively converted to a guided missile cruiser (CG 10) by 1962, serving another 18 years.
Speaking of which:
HMS London (D-16), USS Albany, and USS Lawrence (DDG-4) anchored at Malta in 1971.
Albany was sold for scrapping on 12 August 1990.