- Service history
- Awards
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1949}} | Ship name=Fresno | Ship namesake=City of Fresno, California | Ship owner= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=12 February 1945 | Ship launched=5 March 1946 | Ship sponsor= Mrs. Ruth R. Martin | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=27 November 1946 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=17 May 1949 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified=CLAA-121, 18 March 1949 | Ship refit= | Ship struck=April 1965 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification=*Hull symbol:CL-121- Hull symbol:CLAA-121
- Code letters:NKEL
- {{ICS|November}}{{ICS|Kilo}}{{ICS|Echo}}{{ICS|Lima}}
| Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= Sold for scrap on 17 June 1966 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= (as built)[1][2] | Juneau|cruiser|0}} light cruiser | 6,718|LT|t|abbr=on}} (standard)- {{convert|8,340|LT|t|abbr=on}} (max)
| 541|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} oa | 53|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 20|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (mean)- {{convert|26|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (max)
| Ship power=*4 × Steam boilers- {{convert|75,000|shp|kW|abbr=on}}
| Ship propulsion=*2 × geared turbines | 32.5|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} | Ship range= | Ship complement=623 officers and enlisted | 5|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}/38 caliber Mark 12 guns (6×2)- 6 × quad {{convert|40|mm|in|abbr=on}} Bofors anti-aircraft guns
- 6 × dual {{convert|40|mm|in|abbr=on}} Bofors anti-aircraft guns
- 8 × dual {{convert|20|mm|in|abbr=on}} Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
- 8 × {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes
- 6 × depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
| Belt: {{convert>1.1|-|3+3/4|in|mm|abbr=on}}- Deck: {{convert|1+1/4|in|mm|abbr=on}}
- Turrets: {{convert|1+1/4|in|mm|abbr=on}}
- Conning Tower: {{convert|2+1/2|in|mm|abbr=on}}
| Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption = (post-war)[1][2] | 5|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}/38 caliber Mark 12 guns (6×2)- 4 × quad {{convert|40|mm|in|abbr=on}} Bofors anti-aircraft guns
- 4 × dual {{convert|40|mm|in|abbr=on}} Bofors anti-aircraft guns
}} | The second USS Fresno (CL-121) was a United States Navy Juneau-class light cruiser launched on 5 March 1946 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. Ruth R. Martin; and commissioned on 27 November 1946, with Captain Elliott Bowman Strauss in command.[3] She was reclassified CLAA-121 on 18 March 1949. Service historyDuring her first operational cruise, from 13 January-7 May 1947, Fresno not only concluded her preliminary training in the Caribbean, but also visited Montevideo, Uruguay, during a presidential inauguration and called at Rio de Janeiro. On 1 August, she sailed from Norfolk, Virginia for a tour of duty which took her to ports both of northern Europe and the Mediterranean, returning to Norfolk on 1 December.[3] A second overseas deployment, from 3 March-19 June 1948, found Fresno visiting Amsterdam, Dublin, Bergen, and Copenhagen from her overseas base at Plymouth, England. Her coastwise operations from Norfolk included cruises to Prince Edward Island and Bermuda prior to her decommissioning at New York Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1949. Placed in reserve, she was berthed at Bayonne, New Jersey. She was sold for scrap on 17 June 1966.[3] Awards- World War II Victory Medal
- Navy Occupation Medal with "EUROPE" clasp
References1. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_atlanta_class_cruisers.html | title=Atlanta Class Cruisers | publisher=Historyofwar.org | date=13 January 2015 | accessdate=22 November 2015 | author=Rickard, J}}
2. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/cruisers/ca-cl2.htm | title=US Cruisers List: US Light/Heavy/AntiAircraft Cruisers, Part 2 | publisher=Hazegray.org | date=24 April 2000 | accessdate=23 October 2015}}
3. ^1 2 {{cite DANFS |url= http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/fresno-ii.html |title= Fresno II (CL-121) |date= 9 July 2015 |accessdate= 23 November 2015 }}
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/fresno-ii.html}}
External links{{Commons category|USS Fresno (CL-121)}}- {{navsource|04/121/04121|USS FRESNO (CL/CLAA-121)}}
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