USS Manchester (CL-83), 1946-1960

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USS Manchester, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in October 1946, she made four deployments to the Mediterranean Sea in 1947-49. In March 1949, Manchester transferred to the Pacific fleet and cruised in the western Pacific during May-November of that year.

Soon after the outbreak of the Korean War, Manchester, by then the only one of the twenty-seven Cleveland class cruisers still on active duty following the late 1940s' reductions in Naval strength, again was sent to Asiatic waters, where she arrived in time to provide fire support for the mid-September 1950 invasion of Inchon. During the rest of 1950 and the first five months of 1951, Manchester operated along the Korean Coast, shelling enemy troops and facilities. She also participated in patrols of the Taiwan Straits in October and November 1950. Manchester made two more Korean War combat deployments, during November 1951-May 1952 and January-July 1953. These involved active blockade and bombardment duties, mainly off eastern Korea, including participation in the prolonged Seige of Wonsan.

Following the end of the Korean conflict, Manchester continued her western Pacific involvement with a pair of deployments in 1954 and 1955. In January 1956, she helped bring Korean War Unknown Servicemen to Hawaii for burial. USS Manchester decommmissioned in June 1956 and was sold for scrapping in October 1960.

  
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