USS Des Moines (CA-134)
US Navy Ship Wood
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27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
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The USS Des Moines (CA-134), the second ship of that name in the United States Navy, was the lead ship of a class of heavy cruisers. She was the first ship in the United States Navy to feature the auto loading Mark 16 8-inch/55 caliber gun, which was the first of its type in the world.
| History | |
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| Name: | Des Moines |
| Namesake: | Des Moines, Iowa |
| Ordered: | 25 September 1943 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel Company |
| Laid down: | 28 May 1945 |
| Launched: | 27 September 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 16 November 1948 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 July 1961 |
| Struck: | 9 July 1991 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol: CA-134 |
| Fate: | Scrapping completed by ESCO Marine, Inc., Brownsville, TX on 16 August 2007. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Des Moines-class heavy cruiser |
| Displacement: | 17,000 tons |
| Length: | 716 ft 6 in (218.39 m) |
| Beam: | 76 ft 6 in (23.32 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 shaft; General Electric turbines; 4 boiler; 120,000 shp (89,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
| Range: | 10,500 nmi (19,450 km) at 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,799 officers and enlisted |
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