For your approval, a scenic peacetime view some 90 years ago this month, showing the class-leading baby cruiser USS Omaha (CL-4) at anchor in Commencement Bay in Puget Sound at the end of July 1924. “The Omaha had streamed into the Bay on Monday, 28 July for a week’s stay. The 550-foot ‘scout cruiser’ was accompanied by a squadron of six destroyers.”
Northwest Room at The Tacoma Public Library, Marvin D. Boland Collection, B10599
Omaha was built by Todd Dry Dock of Tacoma and launched on 14 December 1920, commissioning in 1923.
Serving a quiet peacetime career, she gave hard if somewhat unsung service in WWII, ranging far and wide and capturing German blockade runners, earning but a single battle star.
Decommissioned on 1 November 1945, Omaha was stricken from the Navy Register on 28 November 1945. She was scrapped at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard by February 1946.