U.S.COVER U.S.S. TRENTON 1934 NAVY DAY ST. PETERSBURG FLORIDA SPECIAL SERVICE

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U.S.COVER U.S. S. TRENTON
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CL - 11)
1934 NAVY DAY ST. PETERSBURG FLORIDA SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON
1934 Cover Collecting Commemorative's
U.S.S.
TRENTON 1934 NAVY DAY
1932 Regular Issues : 721, 3 c,G. Washington
Stamp Cancel  OCT 27,
1934  - Trenton
USS Trenton CL - 11 Navy Day 1934 ST. PETER BURG FLORIDA
SPECIAL SERVICE SQUADRON U.S.S. TRENTON
ST. PETER BURG, FLORIDA
USS Trenton (CL-11) was an Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, of the United States Navy.
She was the second Navy ship named for the city of Trenton, New Jersey.
She spent most of her pre-war career moving between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Trenton joined the Special Service Squadron in 1934, for a good-will tour of Latin America. In May 1939, she would join Squadron 40-T in protecting American interests during the Spanish Civil War and not return to the US until July 1940, when she carried the royal family of Luxembourg, fleeing from the Nazi occupation of their country.
Trenton was authorized on 1 July 1918, and assigned to William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia on 24 January 1919. She was laid down on 18 August 1920, and launched on 16 April 1923, sponsored by Miss Katherine E. Donnelly.
Trenton was commissioned on 3 November 1923, with future Admiral, Captain Edward C. Kalbfus in command.
Trenton was 550 feet (170 meters) long at the waterline with an overall length of 555 feet 6 inches (169.32 meters), her beam was 55 feet 4 inches (16.87 meters) and a mean draft of 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 meters). Her standard displacement was 7,050 long tons (7,160 t) and 9,508 long tons (9,661 t) at full load. Her crew, during peace time, consisted of 29 officers and 429 enlisted men.
Trenton was powered by four Parsons steam turbines geared steam turbines, each driving one screw, using steam generated by 12 White-Forster boilers.
The engines were designed to produce 90,000 indicated horsepower (67,000 kW) and reach a top speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph).
She was designed to provide a range of 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph),
but was only capable of 8,460 nautical miles (15,670 km; 9,740 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Trenton's main armament went through many changes while she was being designed.
Originally she was to mount ten 6 in (150 mm)/53 caliber guns; two on either side at the waist, with the remaining eight mounted in tiered case mates on either side of the fore and aft superstructures.
After America's entry into World War I the US Navy worked alongside the Royal Navy and it was decided to mount four 6-in/53 caliber guns in two twin gun turrets fore and aft and keep the eight guns in the tiered case mates so that she would have an eight gun broadside and, due to limited arcs of fire from the case mate guns, four to six guns firing fore or aft.
Her secondary armament consisted of two 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns in single mounts.
Trenton was initially built with the capacity to carry 224 mines, but these were removed early in her career to make way for more crew accommodations.
She also carried two triple and two twin, above-water, torpedo tube mounts for 21 in (530 mm) torpedoes.
The triple mounts were fitted on either side of the upper deck, aft of the aircraft catapults, and the twin mounts were one deck lower on either side, covered by hatches in the side of the hull.
The ship lacked a full-length waterline armor belt. The sides of her boiler and engine rooms and steering gear were protected by 3 inches (76 mm) of armor.
The transverse bulkheads at the end of her machinery rooms were 1.5 inches (38 mm) thick forward and three inches thick aft.
The deck over the machinery spaces and steering gear had a thickness of 1.5 inches.
The gun turrets were not armored and only provided protection against muzzle blast and the conning tower had 1.5 inches of armor.
Trenton carried two float planes aboard that were stored on the two catapults. Initially these were probably Vought VE-9s until the early 1930s when the ship may have operated OJ-2 until 1935 and Curtis SOC Seagulls until 1940 when Vought OS2U Kingfishers were used on ships without hangars.