USS Des Moines

Last updated October 02, 2021

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Des Moines, after the city of Des Moines, Iowa.

USS Des Moines (CL-17) (C-15/PG-29), was a Denver-class cruiser in service from 1904 to 1921.
USS Des Moines (CA-75), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, was renamed USS Helena on 6 November 1944.
USS Des Moines (CA-134), the lead ship of her class, was a heavy cruiser in service from 1948 to 1961 and scrapped between 2006 and 2007.

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USS Des Moines (CA-134) was the lead ship of the class of United States Navy heavy cruisers. She was the first ship in the United States Navy to feature the auto loading Mark 16 8-inch/55 caliber gun, the first of its type in the world, and the second ship of its name in the U.S. Navy.

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The Des Moines-class cruisers were a trio of very large U.S. Navy heavy cruisers commissioned in 1948 and 1949. They were the last of the all-gun heavy cruisers, exceeded in size in the American navy only by the 30,000 long tons (30,481 t) Alaska-class cruisers that straddled the line between heavy cruiser and battlecruiser. Two were decommissioned by 1961 but the Newport News (CA-148), served until 1975. USS Salem is a museum ship in Quincy, Massachusetts the other two were scrapped.

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