The class namesake; she was a treaty cruiser commissioned in 1930.
During 1942, she acted as screen for the carriers Enterprise and Hornet in the Pacific: present at the Doolittle Raid, the Battle of Midway and Guadalcanal operations (where she was sunk at the Battle of Tassafaronga later that year).
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