USS Des Moines (CA 134)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PA), US

Lead ship of the last class of all gun heavy cruisers built for the U.S. Navy, USS Des Moines is now mothballed at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, PA.

USS Des Moines (CA 134)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PA), US

Lead ship of the last class of all gun heavy cruisers built for the U.S. Navy, USS Des Moines is now mothballed at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, PA.

Sea - Military - Surface Warfare
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By: Analogman

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Comments

Anonymous

@ 2009-03-20 06:18:19

From Wikipedia.org 3/09

After decommissioning in 1961 she was mothballed in the South Boston Naval Annex and eventually laid up in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at Philadelphia, where she remained until 2006. After an attempt to turn her into a museum ship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, failed, she was towed to Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping, and arrived there 7 September. By July 2007, she had been completely broken up. Her status officially changed to "disposed of by scrapping, dismantling" on 16 August 2007
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