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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 137563, member: 55&quot;]I agree with Spring that it looks like an Omaha-class light cruiser; the four stacks are distinctive, and as AF noted the arrangement of the forward guns is unusual, and is a characteristic of that class.</p><p>The Wikipedia article on the Omaha-class has a list of all the ships built in that class, with links to individual articles about each of them.</p><p>It is a lot of reading, but possibly the individual articles could help pin down which of them is in your photo.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha-class_cruiser" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha-class_cruiser" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha-class_cruiser</a></p><p>There is also mention that&quot; due to the large topweight lasting on these ships, compounded by the high-mounted catapults, the Navy removed the two lower aft firing casemate-mounted 6-inch guns in 1939, fairing over the casemates port and starboard.&quot;</p><p>That detail might help to identify the time period, but I can&#039;t tell if the photo shows the pre- or post-1939 arrangement.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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