Lead ship, an improved Baltimore with a streamlined single-stack superstructure. Commissioned postwar. Served as an Atlantic Fleet flagship during the early Cold War. Decommissioned 1947.

Converted to guided missile cruiser CG-10 . the most extensively modernized American cruiser of the Cold War. Received the Talos, Tartar, and ASROC weapons suite. Served into the early 1980s, outlasting every other WWII-era cruiser hull.

Korean War service throughout the conflict, providing naval gunfire support along the Korean coast. Mediterranean deployments during the Cold War standoff with the Soviet fleet.