Editing Baltimore-class cruiser (section)

====Damage====
[[File:USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) underway after she lost her bow in June 1945 (80-G-325746).jpg|thumb|right|{{USS|Pittsburgh|CA-72|6}} with her bow ripped off]]
In World War II, only the {{USS|Canberra|CA-70|2}} was damaged through enemy fire, when she was struck with an air-dropped [[torpedo]] on 13 October 1944, which killed 23 men in the engine room and left the ship immobilized. The ship was hit amidships and both [[boiler]] rooms were flooded with 3,000 tons of seawater. She was towed away by [[sister ship]] {{USS|Boston|CA-69|2}}, and as a result, both ships missed the crucial [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]]. A year later, repairs were completed at the Boston Naval Shipyard, and ''Canberra'' was assigned to the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|Atlantic Fleet]]. In June 1945, {{USS|Pittsburgh|CA-72|2}} had her entire bow ripped off in a typhoon, but there were no casualties. The ship struggled through {{convert|70|kn|adj=on}} winds to [[Guam]], where provisional repairs were made before sailing to the [[Puget Sound Naval Shipyard]] for a full reconstruction. ''Pittsburgh''{{'}}s detached bow stayed afloat, and it was later towed into Guam and scrapped.

During the Korean War, a fire in a forward [[gun turret]] on 12 April 1952, killed 30 men on ''St. Paul''. Then, in 1953, the same ship was hit by a coastal battery, though without injury to the crew.  ''Helena'' in 1951 and ''Los Angeles'' in 1953 were also struck by coastal batteries without injuries during the war.

In June 1968, ''Boston'', along with its escort, the [[Australia]]n [[destroyer]] {{HMAS|Hobart|D 39|6}}, were victims of [[friendly fire]] when planes of the [[US Air Force]] mistook them for enemy targets and fired on them with [[AIM-7 Sparrow]] missiles. Only ''Hobart'' was seriously damaged; although ''Boston'' was hit, the warhead of the missile failed to detonate.