During construction, in recognition of the valour displayed by the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra during the Battle of Savo Island, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wished to commemorate the Australian ship's loss by naming a US ship in her honour: Pittsburgh was selected and renamed USS Canberra. Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. We cherish liberty and hold it safe, providing hope for the rest of the world.    In the century just passed, Australians served side by side with Americans in every major military commitment.  In peaceful times like our own, the alliance between our two nations has helped spare the world from other wars and dangers.  Australia is a strong and peaceful presence in East Asia and the Pacific.    Australia is a generous land, mindful of the struggles of poorer nations, always helping when and where it can.  Your government and your good people are an example of democracy, individual liberty, and the virtues of free trade amongst all nations.    On this official visit to our country, I know that you will meet with nothing but goodwill.  And in meetings with Congress and my administration, you will find willing partners who understand Australia's importance as a strategic and economic ally.  Though half a world apart, we belong to a very close community of values and aspirations.    From this visit, Mr. Prime Minister, I hope that you will take away renewed optimism about our shared future.  And I know that you will take with you a parcel weighing approximately 250 pounds.  (Laughter. By using the list of officers in the deck logs and the muster rolls, one can compile a list of the crew. NEWS CONFERENCE: Trump and Turnbull discuss trade and North KoreaA NEW US warship will be named the USS Canberra in honour of a WWII vessel, 75 years after it sank in Solomon Islands waters.US President Donald Trump made the surprise announcement during a press conference at the White House today.The original HMAS Canberra was destroyed by the Japanese while protecting US marines during the first days of the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific.President Franklin D. Roosevelt commemorated the loss by renaming an under-construction combat ship which was meant to be called the USS Pittsburgh, the USS Canberra.The new US navy vessel will be built by Australian company Austal at a shipyard in Alabama.Mr Trump said the new USS Canberra would be a “worthy successor” to her Australian namesake.“As she sails the open seas the new USS Canberra will symbolise to all who cross her path, the enduring friendship between the United States and Australia,” Mr Trump said.Standing alongside his US counterpart at the White House, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said it was a “rare honour” and a great example of “a hundred years of mateship”, pointing to the 100th anniversary off American and Australian troops first fighting together in war.“You will have an Australian company with American workers, working operating in the United States building ships for the US Navy,” Mr Turnbull said.“What a great symbol of our alliance and our shared security endeavours. After returning to the U.S. in March 1958, she served as ceremonial flagship for the selection of the Unknown Soldier of World War II and transported Midshipmen on a summer training cruise to Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands.In March 1960 Canberra began an eight-month cruise around the World, operating with both the Seventh Fleet in Asian waters and with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. USS CANBERRA (CAG-2) Crew Links. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. At the request of President Franklin Roosevelt, the U.S. cruiser was named to honour the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra, which had been sunk the previous year in the battle of Savo Island, near Guadalcanal HullNumber.com's mission is to provide a means for shipmates to keep in touch with one another.Registration and communicating with shipmates at Hullnumber.com is FREE FOREVER. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. It is now on display at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia. The battle was one of the first major naval engagements in the Pacific to feature a mixed force of U.S. and Australian vessels fighting side-by-side against the Japanese. She was subsequently towed from Bremerton, Washington, to Camden, New Jersey, to begin an extensive conversion to a guided missile heavy cruiser. The ship was launched on 19 April 1943 by Lady Alice C. Dixon, the wife of Sir Owen Dixon, Australia's ambassador to the United States, and is the only United States warship to be named after a foreign warship or a foreign capital city.USS Canberra was commissioned into the USN on 14 October 1943, Captain Alex Rieman Early, USN commanding.
I scanned ‘The Age’ newspaper for anything newsworthy during that time and found a letter to the editor on May 9th 1967 about a home invasion with an MO that sounds familiar. The Australian Government returned this tribute by naming a new Tribal class destroyer, HMAS Bataan, in honour of the Battle of Bataan.USS Canberra underway as part of Task Force 38 in 1944In June, the ship participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea[4] as an escort to the Fast Carrier Task Force.On 13 October, while protecting carriers performing air raids on Okinawa and Formosa, USS Canberra was attacked by Japanese aircraft ] An air-dropped torpedo hit the ship, causing severe damage and killing 23 personnel.
This work, which took some four years, significantly changed the ship's appearance. USS Canberra is the only USN warship named for a foreign warship or a foreign capital city. You can find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out The USS Canberra remained active with the U.S. Navy until her decommissioning in 1970. Canberra (CA70) Torpedo Damage Formosa 13 October, 1944 The Chief of Naval Operations directs that this report be shown only to those persons to whom the report would be of value in the performance of their duties.