Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Five United States Navy ships have borne the name USS Atlanta, after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The first Atlanta was originally a blockade runner, then the CSS Atlanta, then captured in 1863 and taken into the Federal Navy. The second Atlanta was a protected cruiser, one of the first steel ships of the "New Navy", launched in 1884. The third Atlanta (CL-51) was commissioned in 1941 and sunk in November 1942 in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The fourth Atlanta (CL-104) was commissioned in 1944, served in World War II, then in the 1960s was used for target practice. The fifth Atlanta (SSN-712) was a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine commissioned 1982 and inactivated 1999. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.