Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Three United States Navy ships have been named USS Quincy, after the town of Quincy, Massachusetts. (the first Quincy?) The second Quincy (CA-39) was a heavy cruiser sunk during World War II, at the Battle of Savo Island in August 1942. The third Quincy (CA-71) was also a heavy cruiser, named to commemorate her predecessor and commissioned 1943, serving through the rest of WWII and in the Korean War, decommissioned in 1954. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.