The
United States Navy selected the name
Samoa for
CB-6, an
Alaska-class[?] large cruiser[?] ordered on
9 September 1940 from
New York Shipbuilding[?] Corp.,
Camden, New Jersey. Although
Samoa was scheduled for completion by
1 December 1946, all available materials and slipways were allocated to higher priority ships:
aircraft carriers,
destroyers, and
submarines. This postponed her
keel laying until large cruisers were no longer required.
Samoa's construction, never begun, was finally cancelled on
24 June 1943.
See USS Samoa[?] for other Navy ships of the same name.
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.