November 7, 1931 - The USS Indianapolis was launched. The Portland-class heavy cruiser was 610 feet, 3 inches long and displaced 9,950 tons. The Indianapolis carried a main battery of nine 8 ...

The USS Indianapolis CA 35 was a Portland-class heavy cruiser in the U.S. Navy that was struck by Japanese torpedoes while en route from Guam to the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in July 1945.

The Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser and flagship of the 5th ... The USS Indianapolis was a Portland-class cruiser that commissioned in 1932. About 610 feet long and a beam of about 66 feet, the ...

Nothing to eat. And yet he went on.” Lt. Thomas Conway Conway and his shipmates were serving aboard Portland-class heavy cruiser Indianapolis when it was struck by Japanese torpedoes on July 30 ...

Built by New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, N.J., the 623-ft., 9,800-ton Portland Class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) entered service in November 1932, serving through campaigns ...