High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Duluth (CL-87) was a United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser. She was launched 13 January 1944 by Newport News Shipbuilding, Portsmouth, Virginia; sponsored by Mrs. E. H. Hatch, wife of the Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota; and commissioned 18 September 1944, Captain Donald Roderick Osborn, Jr., US Naval Academy class of 1920, in command. From 14 December 1944 to 2 March 1945, Duluth served as a training cruiser at Newport, Rhode Island. After brief overhaul at Norfolk, she sailed 7 April for the Pacific, arriving at Pearl Harbor 29 April. On 8 May, she got underway to join the 5th Fleet and rendezvoused with the fast carriers on 27 May. Severe structural damage to her bow suffered in a typhoon 5 June forced her to return to Guam for repairs, but she rejoined TF 38 on 21 July to screen during the final air strikes on the Japanese homeland which continued until the end of the war.

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