CA - USS Newport News (CA-148)

CA-148 USS Newport News


class: Des Moines
shipyard: Newport News Shipbuilding & amp; Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia
construction started: October 1, 1945
launched: March 6, 1948
taken into service: January 29, 1949


discarded: June 27, 1975
written off: July 31, 1978
sold for scrap: 25 February 1993


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 "101.4 mm
..pages: 4 "101.4 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
Mk25 & amp; 35
SG-6
SPS-6C
SPS-8A
shooting
main cannons
Mk24
auxiliary cannons
Mk37 GFCS


Crew
1,700 - 2,100 men
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