CA - USS Des Moines (CA-134)

CA-134 USS Des Moines


class: Des Moines
shipyards: Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
construction started: May 28, 1945
launched: September 27, 1946
taken into service: 16 November 1948


discarded: July 14, 1961
repealed: 9 July 1990


length: 716.60 '218.41 m
width: 76.430 '23.29 m
draft: 27 '8.22 m


Displacement
standard: 17,000 tons
maximum: 21 500 tonnes


Drive
boiler: 4 Babcock & amp; Wilcox
turbines: 2 General Electric
power: 120,000 shp
range: 10,500 n.mil/15 knots
speed: 33.5 knots


Armoring
sides: 6 "152 mm
deck: 1 "- 3.5" 25.4 - 88.9 mm
towers
..front: 8 "203 mm
..top: 4 "101.6 mm
..pages: 4 "101.6 mm
barbetty: 6.2 "157.48 mm
command tower: 4 "- 6.2" 101.6 - 157.48 mm


Armament
9 x 203 mm 8 "/ 55 Mk16 (3 x III)
12 x 127 mm 5 "/ 38 Mk32 (6 x II)


anti-aircraft armament
22 x 76 mm 3 "/ 50 Mk27 & 33 (11 x II)
12 x 20 mm (12 x I)


Radars


air targets
Mk 56 GFCS
level targets
Mk13
Mk 25 & amp; 35
SG-6
SPS-6C
SPS-8A
shooting
main cannons
Mk 24
ponocna cannon
Mk37 GFCS


Crew
1,700 - 2,100
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USS Des Moines Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 31, 2002
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