![]() ![]() The hulk of the CANBERRA was scrapped in 1980. USS CANBERRA served her country, as CAG-2, for 23 years, 7 months and 17 days, until decommissioned on. CANBERRA deployed repeatedly to Vietnam in the late 1960s to provide shore bombardment. Recommissioned on 15 June 1956 and homeported at Norfolk, Virgina after returning to active service, CANBERRA carried President Eisenhower to Bermuda in 1957, circumnavigated the world in 1960 and participated in the Cuban Missile Blockade in 1962. CANBERRA underwent a extensive overhaul and conversion from 1952 to 1956 to be reconfigured as CAG-2, a guided missile cruiser. She finished WWII in the Boston Naval Shipyard and was placed in reserve after the end of hostilities. Joining the war against the Japanese in 1944, CANBERRA battled across the Pacific until damaged by a air dropped torpedo in October 1944. USS CANBERRA was built at the Bethlehem Steel Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass. The USS CANBERRA (CAG-2), a Baltimore class cruiser, was commissioned on as CA-70. ![]()
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