USS Fresno (CL-121)

The second USS "Fresno" (CL-121) was a United States Navy "Atlanta"-class light cruiser launched on 5 March 1946 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. Ruth R. Martin; and commissioned on 27 November 1946, with Captain E. B. Strauss in command. She was reclassified CLAA-121 on 18 March 1949.

During her first operational cruise, from 13 January 1947 to 7 May, "Fresno" not only concluded her preliminary training in the Caribbean, but also visited Montevideo, Uruguay, during a presidential inauguration and called at Rio de Janeiro. On 1 August, she sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, for a tour of duty which took her to ports both of northern Europe and the Mediterranean, returning to Norfolk on 1 December.

A second overseas deployment, from 3 March 1948 to 19 June, found "Fresno" visiting Amsterdam, Dublin, Bergen, and Copenhagen from her overseas base at Plymouth, England. Her coastwise operations from Norfolk included cruises to Prince Edward Island and Bermuda prior to her decommissioning at New York Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1949. Placed in reserve, she was berthed at Bayonne, New Jersey. She was sold for scrap 17 June 1966.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/f5/fresno-ii.htm
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/121/04121.htm navsource.org: USS FRESNO (CL/CLAA-121)]