USS Salem

Last updated October 20, 2021

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Salem:

USS Salem (CL-3) was a scout cruiser in service from 1908 to 1921
USS Salem (CM-11) was the civilian vessel Joseph R. Parrott, used as a minelayer from 1942 to 1945
USS Salem (CA-139) is a heavy cruiser and museum ship in service from 1949 to 1959

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

Related Research Articles

USS Ticonderoga may refer to:

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Brooklyn, after the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Indianapolis:

USS Albany has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

USS Columbia may refer to:

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Birmingham, after the city of Birmingham, Alabama.

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named Chattanooga, after the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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

USS Detroit may refer to:

Five ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Cincinnati, after the city of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Fargo may refer to:

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Helena, after the city of Helena, Montana.

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.

USS Salem (CA-139) is the second ship of the Des Moines-class heavy cruisers completed for the United States Navy shortly after World War II. Commissioned in 1949, she was the world's last heavy cruiser to enter service and is the only one still in existence. She was decommissioned in 1959, after serving in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. She is open to the public as a museum ship in Quincy, Massachusetts.

USS Providence may refer to:

USS Salem (CS-3/CL-3), Scout Cruiser No. 3, was a Chester-class scout cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the first Navy ship named for the city of Salem, Massachusetts.

USS Vicksburg may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

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.

The United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum is a private non-profit museum in Quincy, Massachusetts featuring USS Salem (CA-139), a heavy cruiser docked at the former Fore River Shipyard where she was laid down in 1945. The museum was established in 1993, in response to efforts by local officials and volunteers to revive the shipyard area after operations at Fore River ended in 1986. Several exhibits are on board Salem relating to United States naval history and shipbuilding. Before being moved to a different pier, the museum featured dockside fixtures and a miniature golf course.

USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul may refer to:

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.