USS Northampton (CA-26)
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USS Northampton was the lead Northampton-class cruiser in service with the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1930, originally classified a light cruiser because of her thin armor but later r
USS Northampton (CA-26) at Brisbane on 5 August 1941
Northampton in 1930.
USS Northampton of the Enterprise task force enters Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941.
Northampton attempting to tow Hornet during the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942
Patrol torpedo boat PT-109
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PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat last commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific theater during World War II. Kennedy's a
USS Northampton (CA-26)
…hour by destroyers of Task Force 67. About 40 crewmen spent the rest of the night in two life rafts. Those survivors were later rescued by torpedo boat PT-109 and landed on Tulagi Island. U. S. Navy archives contain a photo of PT-109 entering the anchorage at Tulagi, her topside crowded by Northampton survivors…
PT-109 on board SS Joseph Stanton
PT tankroom below deck, looking forward, shows partially exposed fuel tank through open door in bulkhead on left.
PT-109 armament in August 1943; a forward 37 mm antitank gun, aft 20 mm autocannon, two twin .50 caliber machine gun turrets and four torpedo tubes
PT-109 entering Tulagi carrying 94 survivors from the sunken heavy cruiser USS Northampton