U.S.S. Salem
CA-139
1955
(Argos AS-100)
- Class: Des Moines - 3 heavy cruisers of 1943-44
- Displacement: 20,950 tons
- Dimensions: 716'5" x 76'4" x 25'6"
- Machinery: 4 boilers, 4 geared trubines; 120,000 shp; 4 screws
- Speed: 31.5 knots
- Armor: 4-6in main belt; 3.75in main deck; 1in upper deck; 6.5in barbettes; turrets, 8in front, 4in roof, 3.75in sides; 5.5-6.5in pilot house
- Guns: 9-8"/55 (3x3), 12-5"/38 DP (6x2), 24-3"/50 AA (12x2)
- Complement: 94+1,306
- Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA
- Keel Laid: 4 Jul 1945
- Launched: 25 Mar 1947
- Commissioned: 14 May 1949
- Decommissioned: 30 Jan 1959
- Notes: Made seven deployments as flagship of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean 1950-58. Became a museum ship at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts in 1994.
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