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Comment: Northampton-class heavy cruiser, CA-30. Commissioned in 1930. Was in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and joined naval forces assembling in Australia. Houston was sunk by Japanese forces in the Battle of Sunda Strait, March 1, 1942, with heavy loss of life.