CL-6 Cincinnati
USS Cincinnati, a 7050-ton Omaha class light cruiser, was built at Tacoma, Washington. Commissioned in January 1924, she cruised to South America on shakedown and then became part of the Scouting Fleet. Following operations in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, early in 1927 Cincinnati steamed across the Pacific for a year's tour with the Asiatic Fleet. She mainly served in the Atlantic during 1928-1932, then was assigned to the U.S. Fleet's Battle Force, which was based on the U.S. West Coast. The cruiser briefly revisited the Atlantic for the May 1934 fleet review off New York City, trained Naval Reservists in 1935-1938, and was reassigned to the Atlantic at the end of the decade.
Cincinnati returned to the Pacific in April 1940. She voyaged to Guam and the Philippines late in the year and, in April 1941, joined the Atlantic Fleet for Neutrality Patrol operations. She continued patrol and convoy escort duties after the United States formally entered World War II in December 1941. While serving in the South Atlantic in November 1942, Cincinnati assisted in the interception and destruction of the German blockade runner Annalise Essberger.
The remainder of Cincinnati's World War II career consisted of Atlantic patrol and convoy operations, among them escorting three convoys to the United Kingdom between March and July 1944, service in the western Mediterranean in August and September of that year, and duty with the Brazil-based Fourth Fleet. In the summer of 1945, after Germany's surrender, she was employed as a midshipmen's training ship. USS Cincinnati was decommissioned in November 1945 and scrapped in 1946.
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