USS Topeka (CL-67), a Cleveland -class light cruiser in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1949. From 1957 to 1960, she was converted to a Providence -class guided missile …

USS Topeka CLG 8 Reunion Association. Archived and current Newsletters, association and ships history, membership listing, ships store, services provided by members.

Early in 1957, Topeka was towed from San Francisco to the New York Naval Shipyard that she entered on 15 April to begin conversion to a guided missile cruiser. On 23 May, she was …

CLG-8 General Specifications. Complement: 1410 Officers and Enlisted . Displacement: 10000 tons. Length: 608 feet 4 inches . Beam: 66 feet 3 inches. Draft: 25 feet . Flank Speed: 31 Knots

Originally built as a CLEVELAND - class light cruiser and commissioned as CL 67, the TOPEKA was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Extensively converted to a light guided …

Finally on March 18, 1960, one thousand officers and crew men began moving aboard the new USS TOPEKA (CLG-8) On March 26, 1960, Vice Admiral Thomas S. Combs, USN ordered …

USS Topeka (CL-67/CLG-8), a Cleveland-class light cruiser was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the city of Topeka, Kansas. She was laid down on 21 April …

USS Topeka (CL-67, later CLG-8), 1944-1975. USS Topeka, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. She was commissioned in December 1944, …

"USS Topeka (CLG-8) gets a bullseye as she fires her 5" 38 cal. mount simultaneously with her after battery of Terrier missiles in a test to see if the gunfire would affect the guidance system …

USS Topeka (CLG 8) Fires her forward turret's 6"/47 guns at the Viet Cong, while steaming slowly in the South China Sea on an in-shore fire support mission, April 1966. Official U.S. Navy …