USS Saint Paul (CA-73), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser commissioned in 1945, served through the Korean and Vietnam Wars and earned distinction for the accuracy of her naval gunfire support missions off the Vietnamese coast. Photographed here around 1970 during a formal in-port ceremony -- her decks 'dressed' with signal flags and crowded with guests -- the image captures a moment of pageantry between combat deployments, as one of the U.S. Navy's last heavy cruisers approached the final year of her active commission in 1971. Project: 218675