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Torpedoes removed?

I've read that the US Navy removed torpedo tubes from all its heavy cruiser prior to WW-II, and specifically I've found a couple of non-authoritative websites which say the Northampton class cruisers had their torpedo tubes removed in a 1935 refit. However I haven't yet been able to track down an reputable source. I'll keep looking around, but if someone else could locate a good reference then the Armament section should be updated. Occasional Reader (talk) 21:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hilan Ebert

As this is a history of the Northampton, details of a particular individual casualty should be left out. DermottBanana (talk) 01:31, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Battle Stars

This article says that Northampton received six battle stars, while the Jason Robards-article says five. So, which one is correct? 93.204.245.148 (talk) 14:22, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

The picture above the statistics, while labeled as being of the USS Northapton, cannot possibly be correct. The same picture is used in the article about the Pensacola class cruisers, an entirely different ships class. A quick look at the picture shows that the ship has four turrets mounting tens guns (2x2, 2x3) which definitely makes the ship a Pensacola class cruiser. All the Northapton class cruisers had three triple turrets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.194.201.79 (talk) 22:40, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Picture

I removed the picture above the statistics as it was not a picture of a actual NH class CA (read message above). Until a better one of the NH is found we should leave it empty and not confuse readers by using the wrong picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Switchbreed (talk • contribs) 14:17, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PT-109 Involved in Rescue of Survivors

I don't know if this is worth adding as a mention. Whoever maintains the page obviously should make the call, but after the loss of Northampton, PT-109 assisted in rescuing survivors. There is a photograph of 94 survivors on board the 109 at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/120510906.jpg

This rescue took place before John Kennedy became skipper of the 109.